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Emigration and low birth rate are the main reasons behind Armenia’s declining population
Emigration and low birth rate are the main reasons behind Armenia’s declining population, a demographer Ruben Yeganyan said today. YEREVAN, February 1. /ARKA/. Emigration and low birth rate are the main reasons behind Armenia’s declining population,...
02/01/2017Will there be mass emigration from Armenia after visa liberalization with EU?
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan answered the question of how likely mass emigration from Armenia is after the liberalization of visas with the European Union (EU). YEREVAN, September 18 /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan answered the question of how likely mass emigration from Armenia is after the ...
09/18/2024Emigration almost 90% related to Armenia’s regional policy – Pashinyan
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed confidence that nearly 90% of emigration is related to the regional policy pursued by the country. YEREVAN, December 3. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed confidence that nearly 90% of emigration is related to the regional policy pursued by the country....
12/03/2024President of Armenian Muay Thai Federation accused of organizing illegal emigration
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said today that the president of the Muay Thai Federation Arsen Brutyan is suspected of organizing and running an illegal emigration scheme together with a group of people by prior conspiracy. YEREVAN, December 6. /ARKA/. Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said today that the president of the Muay Thai Federation Arsen Brutyan is suspected of organizing and ...
12/06/2022Armenia's NSS reveals criminal group engaged in organization of illegal emigration in exchange for $20,000-$26,000 per person
Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) said today it has revealed a criminal group made up of 6 persons who were engaged in organization of illegal emigration of citizens. YEREVAN, July 19. /ARKA/. Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) said today it has revealed a criminal group made up of 6 persons who were engaged in organization of illegal emigration of citizens. It said members of the ...
07/19/2022Political processes in Armenia affect out-emigration more than economic conditions – ethnographer says
... leave their country many Armenians say the reason is lack of jobs at home, however, findings of many serious studies show that the jobs they find abroad do not have a significant positive impact on their living standards. ‘The major reason behind out-emigration is lack of hope and prospects at home," Kharatyan said. Another major reason, according to her, is the sense of legal, financial and social insecurity. "The threat of war is not a direct cause of out-emigration, as many people tend ...
02/09/2017Emigration from Armenia surges by 12 percent to 47,000 people- former central bank head
Emigration from Armenia in 2014 increased by 10-12% from the previous year to more than 47,000 people, a former head of the Central Bank Bagrat Asatryan told a news conference today, adding that emigration rates serve usually as a clear indication of ...
03/10/2015Armenian parliamentary minority demands discussion of growing out-emigration
Armenia’s parliamentary minority, represented by the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Heritage and the Armenian National Congress (ANC), has demanded today that the legislator discuss the problem of increasing out-emigration. YEREVAN, September 8. / ARKA /. Armenia’s parliamentary minority, represented by the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), Heritage and the Armenian National Congress (ANC), has demanded today ...
09/08/2014Seizure of police station in Yerevan to trigger new wave of emigration
Gagik Makaryan, the chairman of the Union of Employers of Armenia, predicted today a new wave of emigration prompted by the stand-off between Armenian police forces and members of a political fringe group, who seized a police station in the capital of Yerevan on July 17, but surrendered two weeks later. YEREVAN, August 2. /ARKA/. Gagik Makaryan,...
08/02/2016Armenia’s accession to Eurasian economic union to spur up out-emigration
Armenia’s formal accession to the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will spur up out-emigration, the head of Noravank research and educational center, Gagik Harutyunyan, said today. YEREVAN, September 4. / ARKA /. Armenia’s formal accession to the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will spur up out-emigration, the head ...
09/04/2014Makaryan: Armenia’s import falls in Jan-May 2013 because of growing emigration
YEREVAN, July 3. /ARKA/. Armenia’s import fell in Jan-May 2013, compared with the same period a year before, because of the growing emigration, Gagik Makaryan, the head of the Union of Employers of Armenia, said Wednesday at a news conference. YEREVAN, July 3. /ARKA/. Armenia’s import fell in Jan-May 2013, compared with the same period a year before, because of the growing ...
07/03/2013Armenia set to end out-emigration, Pashinyan says
... the number of people who left Armenia exceeded the number of those who arrived by 6000. Citing these numbers at a rally held in Yerevan last Friday, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said they indicate the first and most important stage of ending out-emigration. According to Pashinyan, 34 thousand more foreigners, many of them ethnic Armenians, arrived in Armenia from May 10 to August 14 than in the same period of 2017. "In essence, this means an increase in investment and tourism interest," ...
08/19/2018Migration increases reduction of volumes of Armenia’s imports - economist
Emigration increases the reduction of volumes of Armenia’s imports, Tatul Manaseryan, an economist and the head of Alternative Research Center, said at a news conference on Wednesday. YEREVAN, September 24. /ARKA/. Emigration increases the reduction ...
09/24/2015Official border crossing data do not always provide complete information about emigration rates, expert says
Official border crossing data is not always enough to talk about more or less accurate emigration rates, according to Ilona Ter-Minasyan, the head of the Yerevan office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). YEREVAN, December 16. / ARKA /. Official border crossing data is not always enough to talk about more or less ...
12/16/2014Ambassador says closing Russian Federal Migration Service’s office would not stop emigration of Armenians to his country
Russia’s ambassador to Armenia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, disagreed today with arguments that closing the representation of the Russian Federal Migration Service in Armenia would stop emigration of Armenians to his country. YEREVAN, October 9. / ARKA /. Russia’s ambassador to Armenia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, disagreed today with arguments that closing the representation of the Russian Federal Migration Service in Armenia would ...
10/09/2012Armenian PM assesses political speculations around migration as risky
... with the numbers on migration each quarter or annually one should be very careful and take into account the fact that there are people who leave the country for work,” the head of Armenia’s government said. Sargsyan reminded that the greatest emigration flow from Armenia over the last 20 years was reported in 1990-1995. “This is quite understandable. That was significantly caused by quite tensed, crisis and collapse situation in Armenia,” he said. The Prime Minister added that the emigration ...
05/03/2012Pashinyan says there is no outflow of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees from Armenia
... settled in Armenia after fleeing their homes as a result of Azerbaijani offensive in September, were not emigrating from Armenia. "There is no outflow of our brothers and sisters, who were forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh: there is no out emigration," he said. The prime minister stressed that at first there was an alarming exodus of the refugees from Armenia, but now the situation has stabilized. Pashinyan suggested that many of them relocated to join their relatives (mostly in Russia)....
11/23/2023Armenian foreign minister visits Lebanon
On May 26 Armenia’s foreign minister Edward Nalbandian will visit Lebanon’s capital Beirut at the invitation of Lebanese minister of foreign affairs and emigration Jebran Basil. YEREVAN, May 25. / ARKA /. On May 26 Armenia’s foreign minister Edward Nalbandian will visit Lebanon’s capital Beirut at the invitation of Lebanese minister of foreign affairs and emigration Jebran Basil. In Beirut ...
05/25/2015Armenia’s membership in Eurasian economic union to give serious boost to its economy –Russian MP says
Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union from January 1, 2015 will give a serious boost to its economy and enable it to build new roads, create new jobs and stop the out-emigration of its labor force, according to Oleg Lebedev, the first deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma committee on CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots. YEREVAN, December 9. / ARKA /. Armenia's membership in ...
12/09/2014Prime minister’s resignation stemmed from political situation and mounting pressure
... on April 10 to nominate a new prime minister. "The authorities are caught between two fires: on the one hand there is the mounting pressure of civic pressure groups campaigning against transition to a new pension scheme and the unceasing out emigration and on the other hand the parliamentary minority is stepping up its pressure on the government. In fact, the resignation of the prime minister was not a surprise," he told a press conference on Wednesday. He argued also that from ...
04/09/2014UITE warns that pension reform would spur out-emigration of Armenians
... interest of IT sector has joined today thousands of Armenians protesting against a new pension scheme, effective from January 1. Karen Vardanyan, head of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE), warned that the reform would increase out-emigration of young Armenians and deteriorate further the social woes of the population. In particular, he singled out the mistrust about how pension contributions will be managed, arguing that the law must be revised to allow citizens to claim their ...
02/12/2014Armenia against opening of Russia’s migration service offices in the country: Premier
... Russia’s Migration Service could open its offices in the Republic of Armenia and implement its program through these offices. We strongly objected it, and be sure, we still are against it today”, the prime-minister said. According to Sargsyan, emigration contains many factors and is a serious challenge for Armenia. “That is why we have singled out three main problems in the government program we submitted for the National Assembly’s approval – jobs, poverty and emigration”,...
06/18/2013Armenia’s population may drop to below two million: expert says
YEREVAN, June 17. / ARKA /. An Armenian expert warned today that the country’s population may dwindle to below 2 million by 2025-2030. Speaking at a roundtable discussion on emigration issues, Gevorg Poghosian, the head of the Armenian Sociological Association, said emigration is a normal process, but in Armenia it reached a scale that can be described as ‘depopulation." He cited UN data, according to which the ...
06/17/2013President: Yerevan to patronize all Syrian Armenians arrived in Armenia
Yerevan is not encouraging emigration from Syria, yet Armenia will patronize every single Syrian Armenian who arrived in Armenia, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at the event on the 87th General Assembly of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Friday. YEREVAN,...
10/22/2012Armenia needs serious and radical changes:Ex-Finance Minister
... Kentron TV channel. Finance ex-minister also thinks that Armenia failed to form organized and modern tax system, moreover, according to his assessments, there are a number of other risks which are hardly ever mentioned. In this context he referred to emigration issue, for instance to Russia. Armenians are mobile people due to some objective and subjective reasons, they will always be attracted by some friendly countries, such as Russia, where they have neither language, nor cultural and historical ...
06/11/2012Opposition ANC promises 11 percent GDP growth
A former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, who is a senior member of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), told a news conference that out-emigration would stop if the economic expansion reaches 7.4%. He said achieving an 11% economic growth is not a difficult job either. YEREVAN, April 17, /ARKA/. A former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, who is a senior member of the opposition Armenian ...
04/17/2012Some 60,000 Armenians go aborad a year in search of jobs: prime minister says
... Armenia, and twice as many Armenians living outside the country. This reflects the mobility of our nation, that is, our citizens can move freely, since there are favourable conditions for it", Sarkisian said. He said another factor contributing to emigration is the lack of jobs. He then recalled that the peak of out-emigration was in 1991-1995 when some 200,000 Armenians left their country a year. "It was due to socio-economic situation of the country at a time when the number of jobs reduced ...
07/25/2011Armenian authorities ignore the real problems of the Artsakh people, showing a humiliating attitude - Arman Tatoyan
... People announced the start of a sit-in protest, despite the lack of permission from the Police. They call on the Armenian authorities to resolve the socio-economic problems of the Artsakh people, among the 12 points with demands, including stopping the emigration of Artsakh people from Armenia, guaranteeing their right to return to their homeland, launching a fair housing program, achieving the release of captured Armenians from prison in Baku. Later on Monday, a group of members of the Artsakh Rights ...
07/15/2025Pro-government MP proposes to raise the maximum age of conscription
... about 3 thousand did so before turning 27. Most of them waited for this to avoid compulsory military service," Sargsyan said. The changes are aimed at increasing the number of military personnel, making military service more attractive, preventing emigration, reducing the number of renunciations of Armenian citizenship, introducing mechanisms to prevent evasion of military service, and criminalizing cases of evasion of military service for alleged medical reasons. "Analysis of data over the ...
05/12/2025Turkey only needs to invest $2.5 billion in Armenia's economy to take control of it, says CCAF head
... economy, which in turn would jeopardise its independence. Such a change, according to Papazian, would not only lead to increased economic dependence, but also to a deterioration in relations between Armenia and its vast diaspora. 'This may provoke mass emigration. Thus, presumably, up to 500,000 people could leave the country..... And I am not talking about recognising the Armenian Genocide (by Turkey) or paying compensation. Now we are talking about the future of the Armenian people living in Armenia....
12/14/2024Pashinyan: Armenia's independence is a platform for ensuring the security and freedom of citizens on its internationally recognised territory
... citizens eligable to vote answered "Yes" to the question, and the Republic of Armenia became an independent state. Since that day, our country has gone through many trials: wars, thousands of victims, blockade, economic and political crises, emigration, as a result of which we realized more objectively that the question put in the referendum in 1991 needs to be answered every day, and we need to answer that question not only by making a note on the ballot in the polling station, but also ...
09/21/2024French Foreign Minister says Azerbaijan's policy towards Nagorno-Karabakh is illegal and immoral
... described Azerbaijan's policy of forcing the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to emigrate as ‘illegal and immoral’, Armenpress reported citing the official website of the French Foreign Ministry. "The strangulation strategy aimed at provoking mass emigration of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is illegal, as the International Court of Justice has already determined. This policy is also immoral," Colonna said, speaking at a conference of accredited ambassadors in France. She also noted that ...
08/29/2023Armenia’s population expected to shrink to 2.6 million people by 2050 –UNFPA
...," she said. According to Hovhannisyan, besides Armenia, also Georgia and Russia will see their populations decline until 2050. The decrease of population in Armenia is resulting from a drop in total fertility rate as well as from the changes in emigration rates. The expert stressed that even Armenian government-designed programs to promote birth rate will not change the situation for the better. She said the reasons behind birthrate decrease in Armenia are socio-economic problems. According ...
11/15/2022Armenia can expand exports to 21 countries and increase volumes by about $1 billion – IMF
... in such countries as Russia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Iraq, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Canada. The study says raising Armenia’s long-term growth prospects is critical to meet the pressing need for jobs, achieve higher living standards, and arrest emigration. Armenia’s foreign trade in January-September 2022 amounted to over $9.3 billion having surged by 62.5% from the same time span in 2021, according to the National Statistical Committee.A Armenian exports in the first nine months of 2022 compared ...
10/31/2022Armenia saw largest ever amount of remittances from Russia in May, 2022
... systems in former Soviet republics’ banks. In addition, since the first days of the conflict in Ukraine, specialized associations, especially IT professionals, began relocating to Georgia, Armenia, the Baltic States and Cyprus. Estimates of the scale of emigration of Russians abroad triggered by the events in Ukraine vary from tens to hundreds of thousands or even millions. The Unistream money transfer system notes that the volume of money transfers via their service to the neighboring countries increased ...
07/25/2022Armenian economist questions prime minister’s statement about average wage growth in 2021
... higher, because there is a very large number of economically inactive population. There are about 800 thousand of them. It is clear that some of them are pensioners, some are students. Unemployment is also very high among young people that leads to high emigration of young people and birthrate reduction," he said. In that regard, Mikayelyan thinks ‘we should think about which jobs are created, which sectors generate the most, how to obtain maximum effect with minimum expenses and how to deliver ...
02/07/2022Levon Ter-Petrosyan does not rule out coalition with Robert Kocharyan
... continue if the elections are won either by an alliance led by Kocharyna or Pashinyan's Civil Contract. This, according to Ter-Petrosyan, will not allow the next government to solve urgent problems as the internal instability will continue, and the pace of emigration will accelerate. -0-
06/10/2021Armenian National Congress to run in June 20 elections
... continue if the elections are won either by an alliance led by Kocharyna or Pashinyan's Civil Contract. This, according to Ter-Petrosyan, will not allow the next government to solve urgent problems as the internal instability will continue, and the pace of emigration will accelerate. -0-
05/17/2021Armenia celebrating 29th anniversary of independence. Premier and president congratulate nation
... officially declared by the parliament on September23. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan congratulated the nation on the Independence Day. In his words, Armenia’s people have gone through many trials over the 29 years of the independence – emigration, fraudulent elections, the October 27 assassinations, political repressions, the March 1 killings, crises and desperation. “However, all these difficulties could not break the Armenian people. The nonviolent, velvet, people's revolution ...
09/21/2020Negative net migration rate in Armenia drops to 9,857 people
In the first 9 months of 2019 the negative net migration rate in Armenia dropped to 9,857 people from 15,555 people in the same period of 2018, Deputy Head of the Migration Service Irina Davtyan said at a press conference on Wednesday. YEREVAN, December 18. /ARKA/. In the first 9 months of 2019 the negative net migration rate in Armenia dropped to 9,857 people from 15,555 people in the same period of 2018, Deputy Head of the Migration Service Irina Davtyan said at a press conference on Wednesday...
12/18/2019Armenia’s population continues to dwindle, UNFPA representative says
... stood at 2,979,900 people, falling to 2,969,800 people as of July 1, 2018. According to an annual UNFPA report titled ‘Population of the World,’ the main reasons for the population decline, including in Armenia, are low birth rates, migration and emigration. Speaking at a news conference today Hovhannisyan said the number of births in Armenia in the reporting period decreased by 1,000, from 17,170 in the first half of 2017 to 16,189 in the first half of this year. She also said the Armenian government’s ...
10/17/2018Armenia and Georgia to build highly developed countries to the benefit of their nations, Georgian deputy prime minister says
..., prosperity and happiness, just as we will do our utmost for the strengthening of the Georgian State and the happiness of the Georgian people. I want to make an observation: you may know that today our most important priority is to stop the tide of emigration from Armenia and, on the contrary, usher in the era of immigration, that is, all those who have left the country should return to their homeland. We now are pursuing such a policy in the Republic of Armenia,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ...
06/01/2018New president says Armenia may become attractive partner for East and West
... potential and energy of the society. "Confidence in today and tomorrow, a clear vision of how the economy should advance its tangible results can not only stimulate economic growth, the flow of domestic and foreign investment, but also prevent emigration, and facilitate the return of our compatriots to our homeland," Sarkissian said. At the same time, he noted that, despite promises of a bright future, people want to see the changes and fruits of their work now. Sarkissian said this desire ...
04/09/2018Tsarukyan bloc to support Armenian Republicans’ presidential candidate
... Sarkissian, the presidential candidate nominated by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia. “Of course, I know Armen Sarkissian and his approaches, views and readiness,” Tsarukyan said. “Today he speaks about our common desire, goal and topics. Yes, emigration should be stopped and replaced by immigration, people should return with confidence in the country to make investments here. This is his approach and we support it.” Tsarukyan also said that it is necessary to give time to Sarkissian for ...
02/26/2018Armenia is ahead of its neighbors and CIS countries by economic indicators, prime minister says
... year? No," Karapetyan said. In comments on the ongoing migration of Armenians Karapetyan said it happens in all countries and there will not be a situation in which it will cease irrespective of the improvement in the quality of life. "The emigration and immigration trends will certainly change, but for this to happen we must make Armenia a secure and developed country," Karapetyan summed up. Karapetyan also said that the atmosphere of mistrust between Armenia and the Diaspora must ...
09/19/2017Public outcry rising in Spitak against dismantling of elevator plant
... earthquake. "We discussed this issue with representatives of the Council of Armenian Intelligentsia and I was asked to present the problem to the public. The decision is nothing but a ‘malicious joke" against the people. We are fighting emigration, but at the same time we are destroying our factories," Hamazaspyan said. He said although the plant is now privately owned, it does not give its owner the right to dismantle it. "I intended to set up there a helio technology enterprise,...
08/28/2017Armenia’s population will increase to 4 million by 2040 only if 50,000 ethnic Armenians immigrate back to their homeland annually
... Sargsyan. Addressing the first session of the new Armenian parliament on May 18 president Sargsyan stated that the population of Armenia should grow 4 million by 2040 due to a sharp improvement in the demographic situation. According to Asatryan, the out-emigration indicators for the first quarter of 2017 remain unchanged compared to the same indicator in 2016. At the same time, he stressed that in 2016 about 55,000 Armenian citizens left the country. He said also that in 1990, the natural increase in ...
05/24/2017Armenia needs 7-10% annual growth to secure sustainable economic expansion
... agriculture, which are important in terms of employment is a serious concern, while growth was reported by industry, which is not accompanied by a proportionate increase in jobs. According to Asatryan, these negative developments can trigger a new wave of out-emigration, which in turn has a negative impact on the overall economic situation. Asatryan said the economic downturn last year was caused also by an unprecedented surge in violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and the seizure of a police station ...
01/30/2017Gagik Tsarukyan announces his decision to contest next parliamentary elections
... would not re-involve in political processes, if he were convinced that the country was moving in the right direction, that the economy was growing and that the level of the well-being of people was on the rise. "Unfortunately, we have a huge out-emigration, weak and ailing economy, constant increase in poverty, high unemployment and lack of confidence in the future. I can not remain indifferent to the fate of the people, especially in view of numerous daily requests and appeals to return to politics,...
01/17/2017Prices of goods rose again in Armenia ahead of new year festivities
... are trying to get the most revenue. According to him, in comparison with previous years, the number of customers in local stores decreased. "This is primarily indicative of the lowering solvency of Armenian citizens, as well as the high level of emigration," - added Chilingaryan. He noted that after the holidays, the prices of goods dropped immediately. -0-
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