Study: Armenia's population to drop to 1.8 million by 2100

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia will see its population diminish by more than 40% within the next 80 years, dropping from today's 3 million to 1.78 million in 2100, projections in a major study published in The Lancet reveal.

According to the current UN projections, however, Armenia's population stand at 3.17 million in 2100.

The new study forecasted the country's population in the reference scenario to peak at 3.04 million people in 2022.

Neighboring Azerbaijan, which according to the study had a population of 10.2 million in 2017, will also see a n almost 15% decline in the coming decades, with the number of people living in the country projected to drop to 8.69 in 2100.

In Georgia, meanwhile, the population will diminish from 3․69 million people estimated in 2017 to a projected 2.78 million in 2100.

In a bigger picture, the earth will be home to 8.8 billion people in 2100, which is by two billion fewer than current UN projections, the study said.

China's population, meanwhile, will fall from 1.4 billion people today to 730 million in 80 years, said the study led by an international team of researchers.