Armenia becoming aging country – newspaper

December 07, 2013 | 08:00

YEREVAN. – Armenia will become an aging country between 2017 and 2018,
Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.

`This is inevitable, said Assistant Representative Garik Hayrapetyan
of the UNFPA [i.e., the United Nations Population Fund] Armenia
Office.

`In an interview with our reporter Hayrapetyan explained that
countries are considered aging if 14 percent or more of the population
are people that are 65 years of age and older.

`The number of the elderly in Armenia will make up 33 percent already
by 2050,’ Haykakan Zhamanak writes.

From: A. Papazian