ARMENIA: DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES

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ARMENIA DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES

• Shavarsh Kocharyan

Member of the Parliament
Prepared for the Fourth International AIPRG
conference on Armenia Public Sector Governance
and Economic Efficiency January 14-15,
2005 World Bank Washington, DC
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Table 1. World population growth
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Table 2. 67 Countries of total 192, where
population in sum makes up 80
million
Singapore (4,4 x 106), Uruguay, Lebanon, Libya,
Liberia, Albania, Armenia, Congo, Panama,
Mauritania, Mongolia, Jamaica, Oman, United Arab
Emirates, Latvia, Lesotho, Bhutan, Macedonia,
Slovenia, Kuwait, Namibia, Botswana, Estonia,
Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Gabon,
Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Swaziland, Guyana,
Fiji, Cyprus, Comoros, Djibouti, Bahrain, Qatar,
Equatorial Guinea, Solomon Islands, Luxemburg,
Cape Verde, Surinam, Malta, Brunei, Bagams,
Maldives, Barbados, Belize, Vanuatu, Samoa, Santa
Lucia, Island, Sao Tome and Principe, Micronesia,
Santa Vincentia and Grenadines, Tonga, Grenada,
Kiribati, Andorra, Seychelles, Dominica, Antigua
and Barbuda, Marshall Islands, Monaco,
Lichtenstein, San Marino, Palau, Nauru, Tuvalu
(11 600).
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Table 3. Population of three countries (x109)
and their percentage in the
worlds population
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Table 4. Population growth by continents
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Table 5. World population percentage by
continents
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Table 6. Countries with rapid population growth
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Table 7. Population decline (growth) in
democratic countries
- forecast of 2006, in brackets - 2000
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Table 8. Median age in 2003
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Table 9. Population aging and family
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Table 10. Lowest and highest population growth
rates in
member states of Council of Europe in 2002
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Table 11. Lowest and highest total fertility
rates in member states of
Council of Europe
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Table 12. Population in Armenia
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Table 13. Population in Armenia and other
regional countries
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Table 14. Demography of Council of Europes
regional member states
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Table 15. Population decline (growth) in
democratic countries
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Thank you for your attention!