Key Demographic Features of
Armenia*
Location: Southwestern
Asia, east of Turkey
Map references: Commonwealth of Independent States
People
Population: 3,463,574 (July 1996 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 28% (male 497,461; female 476,649)
15-64 years: 64% (male 1,085,935; female 1,132,282)
65 years and over: 8% (male 111,661; female 159,586)
(July 1996 est.)
Population growth rate: 0.02% (1996 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 38.9 deaths/1,000 live births
(1996 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 69.06 years
male: 64.44 years
female: 73.92 years (1996 est.)
Ethnic divisions:
note:
Religions:
Languages:
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989 est.)
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 98%
Government
Country Abbreviation: AM
Type of government: republic
Independence:
National holiday: Referendum Day, 21 September
Constitution: adopted by nationwide referendum 5 July
1995
Legal system: based on civil law system
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Economy
Economic overview:
GDP: purchasing power parity - $9.1 billion (1995
estimate as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1994)
GDP real growth rate: 5.2% (1995 est.)
GDP per capita: $2,560 (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: 8% officially registered unemployed,
but large numbers of underemployed (December 1995)
Communications
Telephones: 650,000
Radio broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 3, shortwave NA
(1991)
Radios: NA
Television broadcast stations: 1
note:
Televisions: NA
*Source: World Factbook 1996, U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency
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