YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN. 76.8% of Armenian youth will leave for abroad if possible. According to the Armenian Youth National Report, 16.5% of them wishes to leave the country due to the lack of jobs, 22.6% for finding a highly-paid job, and the majority, 32.6% for having a rest, travelling abroad. According to the data brought in the same report, nearly 242.71 thousand out of 821.6 thousand 16-30-year-old young people of Armenia is married, 10215 is divorced. The number of marriages has increased by 54.5% and of divorces by 49.5% in 2004 as compared with 2000. According to expert studies, the growth of the number of marriages will be kept by reaching its peak in 2019-2021, after which it will decrease. The young people consider financial, employment, and apartment problems as a compulsory condition and obstacle in the issue of getting married. According to the respondents, the number of children in the family depends on almost the same problems. 78.6% of young people wishes to have 2-4 children and 13.4% 5 and more children. However, 72.7% of them considers possible having 1-2 children and 12.2% 3 children. 72.9% of the young people considers professing the same religion and 40.8% belonging to the same nationality as an important condition in the issue of getting married. The supporters of making a family based on marriage contracts and civil marriage make 4.6% and 5%, respectively.

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