Mediamax, Azerbaijan
Jan 14 2008

Over 2,000 babies born in Karabakh in 2007

Yerevan, January 14: A total of 2,145 babies were born in the
Nagornyy Karabakh republic (NKR) in 2007 which is 2 per cent more as
compared to the figure of the same period of 2006.

As Mediamax was told at the National Statistics Service of the NKR,
40,3 per cent of the new-born babies were born in Stepanakert. Last
year the death rate as compared with 2006 reduced for 0.7 per cent.
The fatality in 2007 was 918 people increasing for 5.9 per cent as
against the same period of 2006. The high birth rate was registered
in Stepanakert, Kashatagh and Martuni districts correspondingly 475,
118 and 100 people.