Armenia`s resident population 2,932,731 as of Oct 2023 

ArmInfo.Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Statistical Committee to participate in the  discussion of the activity report 2023 of the Committee.

The Chairman of the Statistical Committee Stepan Mnatsakanyan and his  deputies reported on the activities carried out during the reporting  period.

It was noted that the program of the previous year was implemented in  full, all of the planned 473 measures were implemented. 20  statistical collections, 67 newsletters, 24 informative monthly  reports were distributed.

According to the results of the 3rd census held on October 13-22 in  the Republic of Armenia since independence, which was conducted for  the first time using the combined method, the number of the permanent  population of the Republic of Armenia in 2022 as of October 13, was  2,932,731. It was also noted that in 2023 a pilot agricultural census  was conducted on October 11-31, and the main widespread census, which  will be the second in number in the Republic of Armenia, will be held  in October, 2024.

Prime Minister Pashinyan inquired about the statistical process in  the field of agriculture and the works carried out in the direction  of capacity development and noted: "Why do we need to call the  community and ask how many vineyards they have? With artificial  intelligence and orthophoto images, the data must be generated and  expressed in our statistics, so that we know what the potential  volume of grape procurement is this year, because we know that there  are dozens of manipulations with these numbers for several different  objectives. Now the technology is so develop. The same goes for  cultivated and uncultivated, irrigated and non-irrigated lands, I  guess we should go in this direction because the data can be adjusted  even about soil moisture levels and so on.

Next, for example, we have the same problem with normative and  supernormative lands. This is important because it will enable us to  refine our planning and strategies. For example, if we are sure about  the data of super-normative lands, we can put a different mechanism  of drip irrigation, subsidy in the soils where moisture is more, and  so on. If we do it manually, there will always be room for abuse.  Moreover, these technologies exist. And I think we need to solve this  problem as a matter of urgency. We should not call and ask how much  grape they have harvested or how many gardens they have. All that  should be generated by artificial intelligence, of course also by  analysis. Call-based statistics lead us to many wrong places."

It was informed that the Statistical Committee closely cooperates  with the Cadastre Committee in the direction of capacity building and  obtaining orthophoto images.

In order to improve the SME statistics, the summary tables of  calculated taxes payable to the state budget by economic entities  (very small, small, medium, large) that carried out economic activity  in the reporting year of 2022, according to types of economic  activity and the size of economic operators, were developed in 2023.

In 2023, Armstat, in cooperation with the World Bank and "Eko serund"  environmental, socio-economic non-governmental organization, carried  out a study "On the use of information and communication technologies  by economic entities and e-commerce" funded by the European Union,  the full results of which are published on Armstat's official  website.

In 2023, completion and piloting works of "Web-platform for  collection, storage and processing of electronic reports" were  carried out in 2 directions. on the administrative portal with the  participation of Armstat units and on the public portal with the  participation of respondents. As a result, from February 1, 2024  Armstat's "Official Statistical Reporting Online System" will be  launched. With the support of the SRC, awareness raising is also  carried out through the platform of the SRC.

A new section titled "Infographics" has been created on the home page  of Armstat's official website, under which the composition and  content of the infographics of the presented indicators are  continuously updated.

140 statistical product quality declarations have been updated based  on the principles of the European Statistical Code of Practice and  the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System  and the General Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM, version  5.0), as well as the Armstat functions have been mapped (statistical  and non-statistical) according to the Generic Activity Model for  Statistical Organizations (GAMSO).

Guided by the requirements of the 10th fundamental principles of  official statistics of the United Nations, the "International  cooperation principle", constant cooperation with international  statistical organizations was ensured, aimed at comparability with  international standards in statistical practice and the continuous  development of official statistics.

In addition to the ongoing research and observations funded by the  Armenian state budget, the "One-time Survey of Time Use" was  initiated in 2023 with the methodological and financial support of UN  Women.