YEREVAN. – In the next seven years Armenia will face a drop in the birth rate, demographer Ruben Yeganyan stated during a press conference on Monday.

According to the expert, this is conditioned on the fact that those who were born in the 1990s are entering the active reproductive age, but there was a drop in births in Armenia in those years.

In his words, it is impossible to avoid the fall in birth rate. “This shrinking reproduction started at us in 1993-1994,” said Yeganyan.

He also informed that the current reproduction indicator of a couple in the reproductive age is 1.4 in Armenia, in the case when each couple was having three children on the average, in the 1970s and 1980s, and thus was securing a 2.6 reproduction rate.    

In addition, the present-day marriage indicators in Armenia are around 6 per 1,000 persons, whereas this was 10 in the 1980s.  

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