{"id":272416,"date":"2016-04-29T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=272416"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T10:50:36","slug":"armenias-population-continues-to-decline-national-statistical-service-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/04\/29\/armenias-population-continues-to-decline-national-statistical-service-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s Population Continues to Decline, National Statistical Service Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAt the start of 2016, the population of Armenia amounted to 2 998 600, 12 thousand fewer than in the same period in 2015, according to data published by the country&#39;s National Statistical Service (NSS).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAll Armenian regions, as stated by the NSS, recorded population decline in the previous year, with the largest decreases having been registered in the provinces of Lori and Tavush &ndash; 3000 and 3200 persons, respectively. &nbsp;Vayots Dzor has the smallest population &ndash; 50 800 people &#8211; of any Armenian province, while the highest number of people &ndash; 266 600 persons &ndash; resided in Armavir province.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Armenian capital of Yerevan is the country&#39;s only area to have recorded an increase in population &ndash; at the start of this year, Yerevan&#39;s population totaled 1&nbsp;073&nbsp;700, up 2200 persons from the same period last year.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian capital of Yerevan is the country&#8217;s only area to have recorded an increase in population \u2013 at the start of this year, Yerevan&#8217;s population totaled 1,073,700, up 2200 persons from the same period last year&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,64513,18094,33844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}