ACOG - Armenia  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southwestern Asia, east of Turkey

Area:
total area: 29,800 sq km
land area: 28,400 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland

Land boundaries: total 1,254 km, Azerbaijan (east) 566 km, Azerbaijan (south) 221 km, Georgia 164 km, Iran 35 km, Turkey 268 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 3,557,284 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 31% (female 542,664; male 570,998)
15-64 years: 61% (female 1,103,171; male 1,076,226)
65 years and over: 8% (female 154,784; male 109,441)

Population growth rate: 0.94% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 22.79 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.66 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -6.68 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 26 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.36 years
male: 68.94 years
female: 75.95 years

Total fertility rate: 3.06 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Armenian 93%, Azeri 3%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 2%(1989)

Religions: Armenian Orthodox 94%

Languages: Armenian 96%, Russian 2%, other 2%

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 98%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Armenia
conventional short form: Armenia

Type: republic

Capital: Yerevan

Independence: 28 May 1918 (First Armenian Republic); 23 September 1991 (from Soviet Union)

Constitution: adopted NA April 1978; referendum on new constitution to be held 5July 1995


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $8.1 billion

National product real growth rate: -2%

National product per capita: $2,290

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 27%

Unemployment rate: 6.5% of officially registered unemployed but large numbers of underemployed

Electricity:
capacity: 4,620,000 kW
production: 5.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,620 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.