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BIRTHRATE DECLINES, MORTALITY GROWS IN ARMENIA - PAPER
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 2, 2012 - 10:20 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Official data indicate that the number of children
born in Armenia in the first three months of 2012 totaled 19 569.
Official data indicate that the number of children born in Armenia
in the first three months of 2012 totaled 19 569, decreasing by 5.7%
compared with the last year.
This is the lowest index recorded in the last 4 years, Haykakan
Zhamanak newspaper reports.
Instead, mortality rate increase has been recorded. 17 953 people
died over the last three months of 2012. Thus, the smooth decline
in the number of births and increase in mortality rate, as well as
rapidly growing emigration portrays the social, economic and moral
situation in the country, detecting symptoms of demographic disaster,
the paper says.
From: Baghdasarian
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 2, 2012 - 10:20 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Official data indicate that the number of children
born in Armenia in the first three months of 2012 totaled 19 569.
Official data indicate that the number of children born in Armenia
in the first three months of 2012 totaled 19 569, decreasing by 5.7%
compared with the last year.
This is the lowest index recorded in the last 4 years, Haykakan
Zhamanak newspaper reports.
Instead, mortality rate increase has been recorded. 17 953 people
died over the last three months of 2012. Thus, the smooth decline
in the number of births and increase in mortality rate, as well as
rapidly growing emigration portrays the social, economic and moral
situation in the country, detecting symptoms of demographic disaster,
the paper says.
From: Baghdasarian