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Demographics

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features of the population

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of Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

, including population growth, population density

Population density

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, ethnicity

Ethnic group

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, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population.

Demographics trends

After registering a steady increase all through the Soviet period, the population of Armenia declined from 3.604 million in 1991 to 3.211 million in 2003. The latest estimate is 3.251 million on January 1, 2010.

Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

is the only republic of the former Soviet Union

Post-Soviet states

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that has a nearly-homogeneous population. It is also the second-most densely populated post-Soviet state after Moldova

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. Ethnic minorities include Russians

Russians

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, Assyrians

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, Ukrainians

Ukrainians

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, Yazidi

Yazidi

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Kurds, Iranians

Iranians

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, Greeks

Greeks

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, Georgians

Georgians

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, and Belarusians

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. There are also smaller communities of Vlachs

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, Mordvins, Ossetians

Ossetians

The Ossetians are an Iranic ethnic group of the Caucasus Mountains, eponymous of the region known as Ossetia.They speak Ossetic, an Iranian language of the Eastern branch, with most also fluent in Russian as a second language....

, Udis

Udi people

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, and Tats

Tats

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. Minorites of Poles

Poles

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and Caucasus Germans

Caucasus Germans

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also exist though they are heavily Russified

Russification

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.

Most Armenians are Christian, primarily of Oriental Orthodox

Oriental Orthodoxy

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rite. Armenia is considered the first nation to adopt Christianity, which was first preached in Armenia by two Apostles of Jesus

Jesus

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, St. Bartholomew and St. Thaddeus in the 1st century. The Armenian Apostolic Church

Armenian Apostolic Church

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can trace its roots back to the 3rd and 4th centuries. The country formally adopted the Christian faith in 301 A.D. Over 90% of Armenians belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church, a form of Oriental (Non-Chalcedonianism) Orthodoxy, which is a very ritualistic, conservative church, roughly comparable to the Coptic and Syrian churches. Armenia also has a population of Catholics

Armenian Catholic Church

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and evangelical Protestants.

There has been a problem of population decline due to elevated levels of emigration

Emigration

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after the break-up of the USSR. The rates of emigration and population decline, however, have decreased drastically in recent years, and a moderate influx of Armenians returning to Armenia have been the main reasons for the trend, which is expected to continue. In fact Armenia is expected to resume its positive population growth by 2010.

Vital statistics

	Average population (x 1 million)	Live births¹	Deaths¹	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1,000)	Crude death rate (per 1,000)	Natural change (per 1,000)
1950	1.354	43,500	11,500	32,000	32.1	8.5	23.6
1951	1.383	49,900	12,400	37,500	36.1	9.0	27.1
1952	1.420	54,100	12,900	41,200	38.1	9.1	29.0
1953	1.463	51,400	14,000	37,400	35.1	9.6	25.6
1954	1.511	58,300	12,400	45,900	38.6	8.2	30.4
1955	1.564	59,400	13,800	45,600	38.0	8.8	29.2
1956	1.619	62,300	12,300	50,000	38.5	7.6	30.9
1957	1.678	67,100	14,100	53,000	40.0	8.4	31.6
1958	1.739	71,500	14,100	57,400	41.1	8.1	33.0
1959	1.802	72,400	14,100	58,300	40.2	7.8	32.4
1960	1.867	74,825	12,675	62,150	40.1	6.8	33.3
1961	1.942	72,377	12,496	59,881	37.3	6.4	30.8
1962	2.005	69,505	13,297	56,208	34.7	6.6	28.0
1963	2.064	67,382	12,046	55,336	32.6	5.8	26.8
1964	2.133	64,454	12,415	52,039	30.2	5.8	24.4
1965	2.205	62,969	12,582	50,387	28.6	5.7	22.9
1966	2.273	61,594	12,445	49,149	27.1	5.5	21.6
1967	2.337	57,031	12,622	44,409	24.4	5.4	19.0
1968	2.401	57,503	12,231	45,272	23.9	5.1	18.9
1969	2.462	56,203	12,782	43,421	22.8	5.2	17.6
1970	2.518	55,694	12,844	42,850	22.1	5.1	17.0
1971	2.580	58,188	12,518	45,670	22.6	4.9	17.7
1972	2.644	59,313	13,730	45,583	22.4	5.2	17.2
1973	2.708	59,593	14,102	45,491	22.0	5.2	16.8
1974	2.770	60,419	14,276	46,143	21.8	5.2	16.7
1975	2.826	62,866	15,498	47,368	22.2	5.5	16.8
1976	2.883	65,065	15,688	49,377	22.6	5.4	17.1
1977	2.943	65,830	15,813	50,017	22.4	5.4	17.0
1978	3.001	66,698	16,465	50,233	22.2	5.5	16.7
1979	3.051	69,786	17,125	52,661	22.9	5.6	17.3
1980	3.096	70,324	17,124	53,200	22.7	5.5	17.2
1981	3.144	73,682	16,659	57,023	23.4	5.3	18.1
1982	3.194	74,225	17,469	56,756	23.2	5.5	17.8
1983	3.243	76,436	18,369	58,067	23.6	5.7	17.9
1984	3.292	79,767	19,043	60,724	24.2	5.8	18.4
1985	3.339	80,306	19,581	60,725	24.1	5.9	18.2
1986	3.387	81,192	19,410	61,782	24.0	5.7	18.2
1987	3.435	78,492	19,727	58,765	22.9	5.7	17.1
1988	3.453	74,707	35,567²	39,140	21.6	10.3	11.3
1989	3.482	75,250	20,853	54,397	21.6	6.0	15.6
1990	3.545	79,882	21,993	57,889	22.5	6.2	16.3
1991	3.604	77,825	23,425	54,400	21.6	6.5	15.1
1992	3.549	70,581	25,824	44,757	19.9	7.3	12.6
1993	3.410	59,041	27,500	31,541	17.3	8.1	9.2
1994	3.309	51,143	24,648	26,495	15.5	7.4	8.0
1995	3.255	48,960	24,842	24,118	15.0	7.6	7.4
1996	3.247	48,134	24,936	23,198	14.8	7.7	7.1
1997	3.242	43,929	23,985	19,944	13.5	7.4	6.2
1998	3.235	39,366	23,210	16,156	12.2	7.2	5.0
1999	3.230	36,502	24,087	12,415	11.3	7.5	3.8
2000	3.221	34,276	24,025	10,251	10.6	7.5	3.2
2001	3.214	32,065	24,003	8,062	10.0	7.5	2.5
2002	3.212	32,229	25,554	6,675	10.0	8.0	2.1
2003	3.211	35,793	26,014	9,779	11.1	8.1	3.0
2004	3.214	37,520	25,679	11,841	11.7	8.0	3.7
2005	3.218	37,499	26,379	11,120	11.7	8.2	3.5
2006	3.221	37,639	27,202	10,437	11.7	8.4	3.2
2007	3.226	40,105	26,830	13,275	12.4	8.3	4.1
2008	3.234	41,185	27,412	13,773	12.7	8.5	4.3
2009	3.244	44,466	27,528	16,938	13.7	8.5	5.2
2010

¹ the numbers of life births and deaths until 1959 were calculated from the birth rate and death rate, respectively

² the high number of deaths in 1988 is related to the Spitak earthquake

Ethnic groups

**Population of Armenia according to ethnic group 1926–2001**
Ethnic group	census 1926¹		census 1939²		census 1959³		census 1970⁴		census 1979⁵		census 1989⁶		census 2001
Ethnic group	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Armenians Armenians Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....	743,571	84.8	1,061,997	82.8	1,551,610	88.0	2,208,327	88.6	2,724,975	89.7	3,083,616	93.3	3,145,354	97.9
Yazidis	12,237	1.4	20,481	1.6	25,627	1.5	37,486	1.5	50,822	1.7	56,127	1.7	40,620	1.3
Kurds	3,025	0.3	20,481	1.6	25,627	1.5	37,486	1.5	50,822	1.7	56,127	1.7	1,519	0.0
Russians Russians The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....	19,548	2.2	51,464	4.0	56,464	3.2	66,108	2.7	70,336	2.3	51,555	1.6	14,660	0.5
Assyrians	2,215	0.3	3,280	0.3	4,326	0.2	5,544	0.2	6,183	0.2	5,963	0.2	3,409	0.1
Ukrainians Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...	2,286	0.3	5,496	0.4	5,593	0.3	8,390	0.3	8,900	0.3	8,341	0.3	1,633	0.1
Greeks Greeks The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....	2,980	0.3	4,181	0.3	4,976	0.3	5,690	0.2	5,653	0.2	4,650	0.1	1,176	0.0
Jews Jews The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...	335	0.0	512	0.0	1,024	0.1	1,047	0.0	959	0.0	720	0.0	600	0.0
Azeris	76,870	8.7	130,896	10.2	107,748	6.1	148,189	5.9	160,841	5.3	84,860	2.6
Others	17,683	2.0	4,031	0.3	5,667	0.3	11,092	0.4	8,590	0.3	8,944	0.3	4,640	0.1
Total	881,290		1,282,338		1,763,048		2,491,873		3,037,259		3,304,776		3,213,011
¹ Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_26.php?reg=2134. ² Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_39.php. ³ Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_59.php. ⁴ Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_70.php. ⁵ Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_79.php. ⁶ Source: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_89.php.

Languages

Armenian

Armenian language

The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...

97.7%, Yazidi

Yazidi

1%, Russian

Russian language

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0.9%, and other 0.4% (2001 census).

Armenian

Armenian language

is the only official language. Russian

Russian language

is widely used, especially in education. 94% of adult Armenians considers that it's important their children learn Russian

Russian language

.

Armenia is an observant member of the La Francophonie

La Francophonie

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due to a small percentage of people studying enough French

French language

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.

The largest communities of the ethnic Armenian diaspora

Armenian diaspora

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are fluent in English

English language

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CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

Data from CIA World Factbook, unless indicated otherwise.

Age structure

0-14 years: 18.2% (male 289,119/female 252,150)

15-64 years: 71.1% (male 986,764/female 1,123,708)

65 years and over: 10.6% (male 122,996/female 192,267) (2009 est.)

Urbanization

Urbanization population: 64% of population (2008)

Rate of urbanization: -0.3% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)

Sex ratio

At birth: 1.15 male(s)/female

Under 15 years: 1.14 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 0.88 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.65 male(s)/female

Total population: 0.89 male(s)/female (2008 est.)

Infant mortality rate

Total: 20.21 deaths/1,000 live births

country comparison to the world: 106

Male: 24.97 deaths/1,000 live births

Female: 14.77 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth

Total population: 72.68 years

country comparison to the world: 116

Male: 69.06 years

Female: 76.81 years (2009 est.)

Total fertility rate

1.36 children born/woman (2009 est.)

country comparison to the world: 201

HIV/AIDS

Adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2007 est.)

country comparison to the world: 114

People living with HIV/AIDS: 2,400 (2007 est.)

country comparison to the world: 135

Deaths: less than 200 (2007 est.)

country comparison to the world: 104

Religions

Armenian Apostolic

Armenian Apostolic Church

94.7%, other Christian 4% (mostly Armenian Catholic

Armenian Catholic Church

and Russian Orthodox), Yazidi

Yazidi

(monotheist with elements of nature worship) 1.3%, and small Muslim

Muslim

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and Jewish populations.

Literacy

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write

Total population: 99.4%

Male: 99.7%

Female: 99.2% (2001 census)

External links

Population cartogram of Armenia

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Demographics trends

Vital statistics

Ethnic groups

Languages

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

Age structure

Urbanization

Sex ratio

Infant mortality rate

Life expectancy at birth

Total fertility rate

HIV/AIDS

Religions

Literacy

See also

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