YEREVAN. – The Armenian National Statistical Service issued the official statistics on the Armenian citizens’ departure from and arrival in Armenia during the first six months of this year, Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.  

“During the noted time period, 1,017,000 Armenian citizens left from and 922,000 arrived in Armenia. The difference made up over 123,000; this surpasses last year’s same indicator by 30 percent.

“Given these statistics, it can be argued that the number of citizens that emigrate from Armenia in 2013 will be about 80,000 people.

“It is apparent that emigration from Armenia grows at terrible rates. According to official data, close to 200,000 people emigrated from Armenia over the course of the past three years alone,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.