YEREVAN. – The average age of marriage has increased in Armenia. 

Garik Hayrapetyan, a representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Armenia Office, stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Friday. 

As per Hayrapetyan, in the case when the average age of marriage in the country was 24 years of age back in 2001, today this is 26 years of age. More specifically, women get married at 25 years of age, whereas the men, at 29 years of age.  

“At present, the number of single young people up to the age 25 is around 30 percent [in Armenia]. And every third among the 30-year-olds has not formed a family,” he noted.  

Hayrapetyan also stressed that an average of 1.5 children fall per woman in Armenia today. As a result, according to the UNFPA representative, if the situation does not change, the population growth in Armenia will be in negative numbers by the year 2017. In other words, the number of deaths will exceed that of births in the country.