Not quite the breakthrough numbers anyone was expecting, but progress is progress!
Armenia reported today a slight increase in overall population number last year saying it grew by 3,600 people to 3,222,700.The same article mentions that over 1,000,000 of those people live in Yerevan!
Over 95% of the population are ethnic Armenians. In addition, Russians, Yezidis, Kurds, Greeks, and Assyrians are among the minorities who call Armenia home.
Source: ArmenPress
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Armenia Fears Population Crisis
Government sees drop in population as a threat to national security.
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The United Nations Population Fund predicts that if current trends continue, the population will shrink to 2.33 million by 2050, while that of Azerbaijan - with which Armenia remains in a state of frozen conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorny Karabakh - will exceed 11 million.
Full article here.
Link doesn't work for me, but I don't doubt the content. Point being, there is a reason why I link to the source in every single article: I don't make this stuff up and report only what's there.
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