89.6% newcomers moved to NKR from Armenia

news.am, Armenia
March 27 2010

89.6% newcomers moved to NKR from Armenia

17:38 / 03/27/2010 Last year as many as 1.581 people, (of which 421
children under 16) arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, whereas 995
left the country.

According to NKR National Statistical Service, the number of newcomers
2.5 times exceeds the leavers.

97% of immigrants intends to stay in Nagorno-Karabakh. Majority of
migrants ` 89.6% moves to NKR from Armenia, while 6.5% ‘ from Russia
and 3.9% from other countries.

Internal migration in NKR made 48.9%.

A.G.