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STATISTICAL SERVICE: ADVERSE MIGRATION BALANCE IN ARMENIA 89,345 PEOPLE
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August 12, 2011
YEREVAN
Karine Kuyumjyan, chief of the Armenian national statistical service's
census and demography division, speaking Friday at a news conference,
said that 458,098 Armenian citizens went abroad and only 368,753 came
to Armenia in the first half of this year.
It means negative migration balance in Armenia was 89,345 people at
the mentioned period of time.
She couldn't present data for 2010 to compare them with this year's
figures, since border checkpoints started sending information to the
national statistical service only in early 2011.
According to the border checkpoints' figures sent to the statistical
service, as a whole, for six months of this year, 754,371 people
crossed Armenia's border from the outside, while 821,644 crossed the
country's border for getting inside (67,273 negative balance).
Kuyumjyan also said referring to the information received from the
police's visas and passports unit that 16,238 people were registered
here and registrations of 17,831 were voided in Jan-Jun 2011.
There are also figures about internal migration.
As a result, adverse migration balance was recorded at 1,593 people
in Jan-June 2011 against 1,546 people in 2010, and relative indicator
remained unchanged 0.5 per thousand.
Earlier, President Serzh Sargsyan said that he viewed the adverse
migration balance as the authorities' biggest problem.
/ARKA/
August 12, 2011
YEREVAN
Karine Kuyumjyan, chief of the Armenian national statistical service's
census and demography division, speaking Friday at a news conference,
said that 458,098 Armenian citizens went abroad and only 368,753 came
to Armenia in the first half of this year.
It means negative migration balance in Armenia was 89,345 people at
the mentioned period of time.
She couldn't present data for 2010 to compare them with this year's
figures, since border checkpoints started sending information to the
national statistical service only in early 2011.
According to the border checkpoints' figures sent to the statistical
service, as a whole, for six months of this year, 754,371 people
crossed Armenia's border from the outside, while 821,644 crossed the
country's border for getting inside (67,273 negative balance).
Kuyumjyan also said referring to the information received from the
police's visas and passports unit that 16,238 people were registered
here and registrations of 17,831 were voided in Jan-Jun 2011.
There are also figures about internal migration.
As a result, adverse migration balance was recorded at 1,593 people
in Jan-June 2011 against 1,546 people in 2010, and relative indicator
remained unchanged 0.5 per thousand.
Earlier, President Serzh Sargsyan said that he viewed the adverse
migration balance as the authorities' biggest problem.