YEREVAN. – The official data on the demographic situation in Armenia make it clear that those people that had left Armenia but regularly visit the homeland are reducing in number, Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.   

“According to official statistics, the number of US citizens that arrived in Armenia in the first half of this year is 9,500, in the case when this was 14,700 last year. The French citizens made up 6,800 this year, against the 11,000 in the year past; 1,700 from Holland, against 3,400 last year; 146,000 from Russia, against 182,000 in the year past, etc.

“It is apparent that we are dealing with not solely a growing emigration, but we are the eyewitnesses to a phenomenon when our emigrated compatriots are losing the desire to be in the homeland at least temporarily,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.