Armenia

EuropeCapital city: YerevanCapital metro: YerevanPrime Minister: Nikol PashinyanPresident: Vahagn Khachatryan
2026 population
3.1M
Rank #141 globally
Area
30k km² (11k sq mi)
Metros tracked
8
73% of population in metros
Composite score
7.0
Rank #115 globally

population: Official estimate (1 Jan 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 8 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography8 metros

Armenia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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8 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 8 tracked metros
8 metros
🗂️ Provinces

11 entries listed under Armenia. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

11 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Armenian
Government
Unitary state
Legislature
National Assembly of Armenia
Demonym
Armenian
Time zone
UTC+04:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+374
Internet TLD
.am, .հայ
ISO 3166
AM
Established
1991
Highest point
Mount Aragats (4,090 m (13,419 ft))
National anthem
Mer Hayrenik

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#68 / 191
0.811
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#113 / 193
$29.2B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#87 / 193
$9.5k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#80 / 190
$24.8k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#85 / 192
$9.0k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#50 / 194
78.3 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
35.8 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#86 / 194
66%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
1.7%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#84 / 193
105/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#66 / 193
9.2%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#100 / 175
0.45
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#17 / 166
27.4
World Bank · 2024
Internet users
#97 / 193
81%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#97 / 185
3.3%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#90 / 192
2.5 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#84 / 186
39%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations4 full memberships

Political & Economic

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History9 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Other

Vahagn Khachatryan✦ Current

2022Present

President

Tenure: 4y 3m 20d

Nikol Pashinyan✦ Current

2018Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 8y 1m 25d

Armen Sarkissian

20182022

President

Tenure: 3y 9m 23d

Republic of Armenia

Serzh Sargsyan

20082018

President

Tenure: 10y 0d

Robert Kocharyan

19982008

President

Tenure: 10y 2m 6d

Levon Ter-Petrosyan

19911998

President

Tenure: 6y 3m 18d

First Republic of Armenia

Hamo Ohanjanyan

19201920

Prime Minister

Tenure: 6m 20d

Alexander Khatisian

19191920

Prime Minister

Tenure: 11m 7d

Hovhannes Kachaznuni

19181919

Prime Minister

Tenure: 10m 28d
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#109 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Armenia · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19456 interstate wars · click to expand
Combat deaths: 7,726+
Combat deaths: 37,413–56,000
Turkish National Movement,Russian SFSR
Combat deaths:
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
2.9m
#140 in the world
Since 1800
7.12×
from 413k
Past its peak
−18.6%
peaked at 3.6m in 1991
Share of world
0.04%
0.04% in 1800
903k1.8m2.7m3.6m18001850190019502000
Armenia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Armenia is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Armenia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
1991
3.6m; already passed
2050
2.5m
95% band 1.7m to 4.0m
2100
1.7m
95% band 513k to 11.5m
2100 against 2025
0.57×
median falling from 2025
Deaths outnumber births
from 2032
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
3.0m6.1m9.1m12.1m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
48k born · 23k died · +9k net migration
TFR 4.90 · life expectancy 54.6 · median age 21.1
1960
77k born · 25k died · +12k net migration
TFR 4.79 · life expectancy 59.1 · median age 22.0
1970
58k born · 22k died · +13k net migration
TFR 3.33 · life expectancy 62.8 · median age 20.1
1980
79k born · 25k died · -26k net migration
TFR 2.48 · life expectancy 65.4 · median age 22.2
1990
87k born · 27k died · +2k net migration
TFR 2.71 · life expectancy 67.7 · median age 25.6
2000
37k born · 26k died · -53k net migration
TFR 1.47 · life expectancy 70.8 · median age 28.6
2010
44k born · 28k died · -30k net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 72.9 · median age 31.3
2020
35k born · 41k died · -13k net migration
TFR 1.62 · life expectancy 68.9 · median age 35.1
Show all 16 decades
2030
30k born · 29k died · -21k net migration
TFR 1.71 · life expectancy 76.8 · median age 39.5
2040
26k born · 33k died · -11k net migration
TFR 1.70 · life expectancy 78.4 · median age 44.1
2050
24k born · 34k died · -7k net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 80.0 · median age 45.2
2060
20k born · 33k died · -5k net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 81.4 · median age 46.6
2070
18k born · 34k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.68 · life expectancy 82.8 · median age 48.4
2080
17k born · 32k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.67 · life expectancy 84.1 · median age 48.7
2090
15k born · 27k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.67 · life expectancy 85.3 · median age 48.7
2100
14k born · 25k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.67 · life expectancy 86.5 · median age 49.9

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Armenia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.