YEREVAN. – In 2015, a total of 64 children—31 of them girls—were adopted from the orphanages of Armenia, informed the National Statistical Service (NSS).

According to the NSS data, a total of 951 kids—452 of them girls—lived in the country’s orphanages in early 2015, whereas 864 children—by the year’s end.

Over the course of one year, a total of 78 kids were returned to their relatives, 114 others were moved to other orphanages, whereas 14 others died.

A total of 76 orphanage children in the country are bedridden, 305 others have chronic mental disorders, and 469 of the orphanage kids are disabled.

The majority of children living in Armenia’s orphanages are over the age of ten.

There are eight orphanages in the country, and six of them are state-run.