Armenian Government Approves Strategy to Improve Demographic Situation

YEREVAN – The Armenian government has approved the 2024-2040 strategy to improve the country’s demographic situation. The strategy focuses on addressing four key issues: enhancing family well-being, preventing premature death, promoting active aging, and reducing migration.

Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Narek Mkrtchyan, explained that the strategy aims to create an environment that fosters family prosperity, where the birth of each child contributes to the development of human capital. It also focuses on reducing risk factors for death and promoting a healthy environment to prevent the deterioration and loss of human capital throughout a person’s lifespan.

The strategy ensures conditions for an active, healthy, and dignified old age, encouraging the involvement of older generations in the socio-economic life of the country. It also seeks to reduce emigration by ensuring competitiveness in the formation, preservation, and utilization of highly qualified human capital.

As a result, a balanced and stable population structure is expected, contributing to the long-term development of human capital and improving the quality of life.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that welfare includes healthcare, public services, transportation, and other vital aspects of life. “It is impossible to imagine welfare without education,” he said.

The Prime Minister also noted that the reasons for migration are not sufficiently studied. “Justice is an integral part of demography,” he added.

Pashinyan stressed that the fundamental question in demography is whether people living in Armenia see a future in the country. “If, on a socio-psychological level, they do not see a future, then no strategy or amount of money will make a difference. People need to believe that there is a future here, where their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can live, work, and study,” he said.