"WE CANNOT AVOID DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE IN 35 YEARS"

Aysor
Oct 23 2009
Armenia

Fertility Rate in Armenia reaches its half, told journalists Ruben
Yeganyan, the ethnographer. Thus, 81.200 children were born in Armenia
in 1986, while only 32.200 babies – in 2002.

Fertility has been increasing in Armenia since 2002; however this is
not a sufficient indicator, says Ruben Yeganyan.

"We cannot avoid demographic decline in 35 years," he said.

Almost no one post-Soviet state has experienced such a strong downward
like Armenia has, says the ethnographer. Such a strong downward trend
in the fertility of Armenia is caused by migratory flows, he noted.