YEREVAN. – Armenia is facing depopulation rather than emigration, head of the Armenian Sociological Association Gevorg Poghosyan.

He said the official data showed that in 2013 the number of migrants raised by 10,000 as compared with four months last year.

The opinion poll conducted in Yerevan revealed that 46 percent of respondents are potential emigrants.

“It is a half of population with indicators higher among men (around 50%) than among women (42%). Fifty-two percent of young people are potential emigrants,” he said.

Among the reasons for leaving the country, respondents named unemployment (32%), no prospects (30%), no justice (20%) and no housing facilities.

Noting that there is a certain link between migration and rate of happiness, Poghosyan stressed that 70 percent of pollees said they feel happy but around 41 percent of them want to leave Armenia.