Friday, August 30 2024 08:50

ArmInfo. During a press conference on August 29, Tigran Jrbashyan, the head of the Management  Advisory Services "Ameria," expressed the opinion that the development of Armenia's demographic structure of Armenia will ultimately lead to a degradation of the qualitative indicators of the  human resource.  

In particular, he explained that in Armenia,  alongside the declining birth rate, there is an aging population.   Additionally, when we consider the phenomenon of migration, which  takes away valuable resources from the country, then, according to  Jrbashyan, this will result in a reduced opportunity to invest in the  development of human capital.

"Every year we will be forced to limit the opportunities that we  invest in education, technology, healthcare, and productivity," the  head of the Service said.  Therefore, according to him, it is  necessary to focus not on indicators such as birth rate, aging,  migration, but on the formation of opportunities for the preservation  and development of qualitative indicators of human capital. "This  will radically change the whole picture. And if we talk about these  topics separately, this will not allow us to assess the full scale of  the problem, which is quite large," Jrbashyan emphasized.

To note that according to the RA Statistical Committee, 15,671  children were born in Armenia in the first half of 2024, which is  7.7% lower than the figure for the previous year. The absolute value  of natural population growth was 2,460 people, having decreased by  45.4% year-on-year compared to a 2.4-fold increase the year before.   At the same time, the migration balance in Armenia continues to be  negative. Specifically, in the first half of the year, the negative  migration balance was 22,893 thousand people, which decreased by 12%  compared to the previous year.