Armenia continue losing working age population

Armenia has lost one million of people able to work over the years of its independence, the executive representative of the Yerevan office of the UN Population Fund, Garik Ayrapetyan, said.

"Although things improved in 2006 and 2007 and even a positive migration balance was seen, the situation worsened again after the 2008 recession. The migration balance is adverse again and stands at 30,000 people a year," ARKA cited Hayrapetyan as saying.

The chief of the Armenian labor and social affairs ministry’s demography division, Vanik Babajanyan, said that it was migration and appearance of so-called distant families that caused divorces in Armenia.

"Some families relocate to migrants, increasing migration rates, and some families are destroyed," Babajanyan said.