Min of Internal Affairs Reveals the Dismal State of Georgia’s Vehicles

The amount of vehicles in Georgia is increasing by the year and the Analytical Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs recently announced that that growth rate amounted to 8.23 percent in 2015.

The number of old cars (those produced before 2006) makes up 91 percent of the total, with three-year-old or younger cars making up only 1.4 percent of all vehicles currently on Georgia’s roads. Worse news, though less surprising to those of us who so often get stuck behind such a rust-bucket spouting out various fumes that would have seen said car scrapped in an EU country, the number of cars 20 years old (or older!) amounts to 50,1539- 45 percent of the total vehicles in Georgia, the Ministry claims.

The share of seven to ten-year-old vehicles stands at 5.6 percent, while 4-6 year-old cars totals 2.1 percent.

As for the destination of newly imported cars, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports that 38 percent of the registered vehicles go straight to the capital city, Tbilisi, 13 percent head to Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi, while 9 percent end up in Kvemo Kartli and 8.2 percent and 8 percent are taken to Kakheti and Adjara, respectively.

Katie Ruth Davies