FACTSHEET ON ARMENIAN GIRL CHILDREN

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Our Girl Children:
There are around 422.000 girl children (0-18) living in Armenia.

Two out of five girl children (42.8%) live in poverty, and almost
four out of hundred (3.7%) live in extreme poverty.

In Armenia, families preferring a girl child are six times less than
families preferring a boy child.

On average each year Armenia loses around 1400 girls because of
prenatal sex selection.iii ~U There is already a surplus of 45.000 boys
(0-18) in the countryi, and the tendency continues.

In 2011, 20287 girls and 23160 boys were born setting a sex-at-birth
ratio of 100 girls to 114 boys, while the normal ratio would have
been 100 girls/102-106 boys.iv

Most popular names given to newborn girls in Armenia are Maneh,
Milena, and Elen (2011) : Our Girls When They Grow Up: ~U Study
(60 per cent of people with higher education in Armenia are womeniv).

Get married at the average age of 24.6 (2010)i.

Have 1-2 children on average (two women have three children on average)
(2010)i.

~U Try to find their place (70 per cent of officially registered
unemployed in Armenia are women)iv.

~U Live on average up to 77 years old – seven years more than men.i