The economy grew 6.9% in the second quarter — and construction was one of only two sectors that shrank

Reported on 18 September 2026, Georgia's economy expanded 6.9% year on year in the second quarter, with GDP at 28.15 billion lari. That is a shade below the 7.4% recorded in the same quarter of 2025, so growth is easing rather than breaking. The GDP deflator, a broad measure of price change across the economy, rose 3.0%.

Transport and warehousing led at 19.8%, followed by arts, entertainment and recreation at 17.4%, information and communications at 16.6% and health and social services at 15.0%. Read together those four say something specific: goods moving through the country, visitors spending while they are here, and the software sector still adding capacity. Trade remained the single largest component of the economy at 14.9% of GDP.

Construction contracted 4.8% year on year; agriculture, forestry and fishing fell 3.5%. Those were the two declining sectors in the quarter. For anyone building or buying new-build, a shrinking construction sector in a growing economy is the kind of signal worth watching over the next two quarters rather than reacting to today: it can mean a pause after a heavy completion cycle, or it can mean fewer starts feeding into supply a year or two out.

One quarter is not a trend, and sectoral figures bounce around more than the headline does. The useful habit is to read the construction and trade lines alongside each other each quarter: trade tells you whether the buyers are there, construction tells you whether anyone is adding to what they can buy. When those two point in opposite directions for long enough, prices move.