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How much due to overestimated population?

April 26, 2017overestimated population

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Author InfoRuben Yeganyan (Economic Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance) Irina Badurashvili (Georgian Centre of Population Research) Evgeny Andreev (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) France Meslé (Institut national d´études démographiques (INED)) Vladimir Shkolnikov (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) Jacques Vallin (Institut national d´études démographiques (INED)) Abstract This study is a first attempt to produce reliable estimates of mortality in Georgia and Armenia in the 1990s. Official statistics registered a decrease in mortality over the 1990s in spite of local wars, mass flows of refugees, and severe economic hardships faced by populations. According to official statistics, in 1999-2000 population size was about 5.4 millions in Georgia and about 3.8 millions in Armenia. Non-official estimates based on migration surveys are much lower: 4.0-4.1 millions and 3.0 millions, respectively. This huge difference is mostly due to unregistered out-migra