In the conditions of “peace” brought by Nikol Pashinyan, extremely worrying events are taking place in Armenia. The natural growth of the population has stopped. Not that it has slowed down or the rate of growth has weakened, but it has stopped altogether. The wheel of natural population reproduction has started to turn back.

At the beginning of the year, more people died in Armenia than were born.

This is an unprecedented event, which means that the country is gradually “dying”. Not because more people have started dying, but because fewer and fewer children are being born.

It is the direct response of the citizens to the “peace” brought by Nikol Pashinyan, which means that people do not believe in fake peace, that’s why they avoid having children and connecting their children’s future with the peace brought by this government.

There was a time when the birth rate in the country increased for a short period, declaring that it was the citizens’ response to the government’s policies regarding the future. Now let Nikol Pashinyan say what message the citizens are sending to the authorities and the peace they brought.

According to official data, 2,393 children were born in Armenia in January. Less than last year. Last year, 2,688 children were born.

This year, 295 less children were born in Armenia than last year.

Births decreased by almost 11 percent.

Never before have so few children been born in Armenia. The number of births in January of this year is unprecedentedly low, a historical counter-record has been registered. Years ago, more children were born in Armenia than now. It is not even comparable to recent years, although the number of children born in Armenia has been permanently decreasing in recent years.

To imagine what happened, compare the number of children born this year with 2-3 years ago. 2023 3,481 were born in Armenia in January, and in 2024 in January: 3,108 children. Those born this year are 1,088 or more than 31 percent less than those born 3 years ago and 715 or 23 percent less than those born 2 years ago.

We still do not say that among those born this year, the children born in tens of thousands of families who emigrated from Artsakh are also included.

Even the fact that fewer people died this year than last year was not a salvation. The natural increase of the population has decreased. 39 more people died than were born.

This is a catastrophe for any country, especially for Armenia, which, as a result of the nation-destructive policies implemented by today’s rulers, is under the threat of expansion by other, including enemy, nations.

This is not the first year, of course, that the number of births in Armenia has decreased. It has been like this in almost all the years of the Communist Party’s rule. If in 2024 33,593 children were born, last year only 32,042 were born. More than 1.5 thousand less than 1 year ago.

The number of births last year is not even comparable with 2-3 years ago.

2023-2024 The number of children born in Armenia exceeded 36 thousand. Last year, at least 4 thousand less children were born.

It is even meaningless to compare with the earlier period. Just 10 years ago or in 2016, under the former “robbery, oppressive and criminal” authorities, more than 40.5 thousand children were born in Armenia. At least 8 thousand more than were born last year.

During the years of the Communist Party’s rule, the birth rate in Armenia was greatly reduced and continues to be reduced. The decrease in the birth rate is directly related to the policy implemented by the rulers of Armenia for the last 8 years. “There is a future” and “peace” brought by them can be seen in these indicators.

Reducing the birth rate is related to the sacrifice of thousands of young lives, as well as to the country’s security, emigration, created social-psychological atmosphere, economic situation and living conditions. It is not surprising that marriages have also decreased significantly. If only a few years ago at least 15-16 thousand marriages were registered in Armenia, last year the number of marriages was only 13.8 thousand. At the beginning of this year, marriages also decreased.

After all this, let them talk about how much they improved life in Armenia, created conditions for promoting marriages and births.

Since 2018, they have been implementing programs aimed at increasing the birth rate, distributing money, and we can see what results they have produced. Until recently, in the case of the birth of the third and fourth children, one-time support of 1 million drams was provided, and in the case of the birth of the fifth and each subsequent child, 1.5 million drams were provided. After seven years, they hardly realized that it was ineffective. Recently they decided to change. Instead of the previous millions, they will give 500,000 drams for the birth of each next child and consider that they are stimulating the birth rate, and the birth rate will continue to decrease, as it has been until now.

The picture of natural population growth in Armenia is deteriorating at a catastrophic rate. Instead of taking steps to correct the situation and promote the birth rate, they want to change the demographic picture of the country with foreigners. And this has been evident everywhere in recent years. The number of foreigners in Armenia is increasing.

If this continues, it is not excluded that one fine day Armenians will be a minority in Armenia. Such a prospect is not improbable under this government.

HAKOB KOCHARYAN

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