According to the recent report, titled Social Demographic Challenges of Post-Soviet Armenia, declining birth rates, rising death rates, an ageing population and radical immigration have Armenia
During the Soviet period Armenia featured perhaps the healthiest demographic picture in the Union. The country benefited from an optimal population growth rate -- 1.4 percent per year between 1979 and 1990 -- and had the highest life expectancy (about 74 years as of 1987) of any Soviet republic. A good health care system, a relatively high number of children per family (2.4 on average) contributed to Armenia
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