Birthrate declines, mortality grows in Armenia – paper

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.

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Birth rate declines, mortality grows in Armenia – paper