a country · GeorgiaGeorgia
also: საქართველო · Sakartvelo
Sakartvelo. Not the American state, which is the first thing every search for it has to get past.
A small, almost entirely privatised health system on the edge of Europe, selling to patients from the Caucasus, the Russian-speaking world and the Gulf. Its draw is a combination three other destinations rarely offer together: no visa for most arrivals, prices below Türkiye's, and a set of treatments that are lawful here and restricted next door.
What its own health system looks like
The 5 numbers behind this chart
| Value | ||
|---|---|---|
| Current health expenditure per person | 554 | current US$ · 2023 |
| Physicians | 5.6 | per 1,000 people · 2023 |
| Hospital beds | 4.0 | per 1,000 people · 2023 |
| Out-of-pocket share of health spending | 59 | % of current health expenditure · 2023 |
| Life expectancy at birth | 75 | years · 2024 |
The story Trade practice
The system was privatised between 2007 and 2012, and most primary and secondary providers are private for-profit entities. A universal government-sponsored programme followed in 2013, covering Georgian residents; the trade in foreign patients sits alongside it and on the same hospital floors.
Trade practice — what brings foreign patients is usually a rule rather than a price. Surrogacy and donor treatment have drawn patients from countries that prohibit them, and the regional traffic in dentistry and cosmetic work runs on the same logic as every border corridor: the next country over is dearer or closed.
Inference — the country publishes very little about any of it. Licensing sits with the State Regulation Agency for Medical Activities, which registers facilities rather than counting the people who fly to them, so this record carries no arrival number at all rather than repeating one from a trade summary.
The particulars
| iso2 | Georgia (GE) |
|---|---|
| direction | both |
| currency | GEL |
| languages | Georgian, Russian, English |
| region | West Asia, Eastern Europe |
| about those numbers | No inbound patient count is carried. Nothing this project could read publishes one for Georgia. (2026-09-17) |
| where | 41.7151, 44.8271 (country) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Harvested · natural-earth |
| confidence | low · needs verification · updated 2026-09-17 |
How far it is from the places people leave
The 7 routes on this map
| From | To | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Baghdad, Iraq | Georgia | 936 km · about 1h 51m in the air |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | Georgia | 1,401 km · about 2h 24m in the air |
| Bucharest, Romania | Georgia | 1,547 km · about 2h 34m in the air |
| Moscow, Russia | Georgia | 1,647 km · about 2h 41m in the air |
| Cairo, Egypt | Georgia | 1,780 km · about 2h 51m in the air |
| Athens, Greece | Georgia | 1,843 km · about 2h 55m in the air |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Georgia | 1,899 km · about 2h 59m in the air |
What it connects to
Sources
- Healthcare in Georgia (country) — Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17)
- Natural Earth — Admin 0 Countries, 1:110m — Natural Earth · link (read 2026-09-16)
Where it came from: Cited a source named here · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Trade practice how the trade works, hedged · Inference this project's own reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.