Next general census of population of Armenia will be held in October  2020

ArmInfo. From October 18 to 27, 2020, a general population census will be held in Armenia. This is stated in the government decree, which was adopted on October 10 at  the regular meeting of the executive body.

According to the document, on October 3-12, 2019, a pilot population census will be conducted to test the program-methodological, organizational and technological  issues of the population census of 2020, taking into account the use  of new ways of collecting information about the population in  electronic form. The census in the city of Artik of Shirak and the  communities of Aramus, Akunk, Kamaris and Mayakovsky of the Kotayk  region of Armenia will be experimentally conducted.

Earlier, ArmInfo reported that about 90 million drams will be  allocated for organizing and conducting a census. The RA Law "On  Census" was adopted in 1999. According to current census data from  the 2011 census (the latest census), the resident population of  Armenia as of January 1, 2018 was 2 972.9 thousand people. This  figure compared with the same period in 2017 decreased by 13.2  thousand people. The decrease in population is due to the excess of  the negative migration balance (23.5 thousand people) over the  natural population growth (10.3 thousand people). In 2017, the number  of children born in the republic decreased by 7.1% or 2.89 thousand  to 37 699. At the same time, the number of deaths over the reporting  period increased by 3%, reaching 27 367. According to the National  Statistical Service, the number of urban population of Armenia as of  January 1, totalled 1,895.8 thousand inhabitants (a decline of 5.6  thousand), and in Yerevan - 1,076.4 thousand inhabitants. In rural  areas, the population decreased by 7.6 thousand people to 1,077.1  thousand people. Thus, as of January 1, 2016, the population of  Armenia for the first time since the 1970s was less than 3 million  people.