The number of children born in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan last week, was 1,902—962 boys and 840 girls, and population growth is 1 percent. Davit Karapetyan, Acting Head of the Health Department of the Yerevan Municipality, reported about this during Monday’s consultation at the Yerevan city hall.

He said that last week there were three cases of the birth of the eighth child in a family, and two cases each of seventh and sixth.

“Last week, 29 children—14 boys and 15 girls—were born in the city of Yerevan among those [Armenians] forcibly displaced from Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)]," Karapetyan added.

Also, the acting head of the aforesaid department of the city hall informed that two doctors displaced from Artsakh last week started working in medical facilities in Yerevan.