The digital image of immigration and emigration and the vision of becoming 4 million, according to Vartan Marashlyan

How to have a 4 million population in 2040? Co-founder and executive director of the “Repat Armenia” Foundation Vartan Marashlyan promptly presents the digital image of immigration and emigration. “How to reach four million when voluntary repatriation rates are between 1000 and 1500, and these of the emigration are 30 to 40 thousand per year. Even if we eliminate emigration and have natural growth rates, then in 2040, we will have a maximum of 3 - 3.3 million people, including Artsakh. What to do and how to organize and bring 600,000 Armenians to Armenia?” Marashlyan adds that today we cannot organize mass immigration. “In fact, we should have at least 30,000 repatriates per year and the absence of emigration to reach that figure,” he says.

As regards the selective, voluntary repatriation, the “Repat Armenia” Foundation executive director emphasizes that it is possible and is already happening. “Our organization works with about 500 people annually that have just returned or are planning to return, but conditions should be created for greater repatriation,” says Marashlyan. Find the details of the conversation in the program “Paradigm”.