Armenia Data Book

Last updated in August 2025

This page contains information about some of the data available in the FEWS NET Data Explorer (FDE) for Armenia. This is not a comprehensive guide.

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Summary table

Country food security context

Statistical reporting units

Armenia usually uses administrative units as their statistical reporting units.

Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on.

Between 1929 and 1995, Armenia's administrative subdivisions consisted of up to 37 raions (districts, or shrjan in Armenian) and 22 cities.  In April of 1995 they were merged into ten Admin 1-level provinces (marzes). Yerevan, the capital of the country, holds an equivalent status to the provinces.

Admin 1: Province (11 total)

Admin 2: Municipality, or hamaynk

Admin 3: Settlement

Province boundaries have remained relatively stable since the merges were completed in 1995.

Crop data

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View our documentation on using the Crop Domain.

Crop estimate data sources

The Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (ARMSTAT) is the principal disseminator of crop estimates for Armenia, and the source of most of the Armenian crop statistics found in the FDW. 

Each year, there are two principal publications disseminated by ARMSTAT which deliver agricultural statistics:

1. Near the end of March, the “Sown areas of Agricultural Crops, Planting Area of Permanent Crops, Gross Harvest and Average Crop Capacity” report is released.  It is found on the AMSTAT website at Home → Publications → By Theme → Agriculture, and requires the user to select a year of interest, before locating and selecting this report.  It provides a comprehensive summary of each year’s sown and harvested areas, and a production estimate, by each crop, by province.  Several formats (Word, PDF, Excel) of the report are available, in Armenian, Russian and English. 

2. A second annual report is published in mid-August titled “The Total Sums of Census on Sown Area Under Agricultural Crops for the [year] Harvest”.   It is found at the same location on the ARMSTAT website as the report described immediately above.  It contains area sown estimates, only, for the selected year. 

Year and season definitions

The annual cropping cycle in Armenia is generally considered to start with winter plantings in October or later, with harvests being completed by late September.  Both the agricultural year and the crop reporting year are generally referred to with a single-year notation (e.g. “2023”), this being the year in which the harvests occur.

The winter-planted (October) wheat crop is the most important in the country and is generally harvested early in the June-September period. 

A spring barley crop is also very important, with planting occurring as early as March and harvests generally being completed by September.  

Crop statistics context

There are approximately 30-35 crops for which crop results are reported in Armenia. 

Wheat and barley production is broken out by season (winter or spring). All other crops are aggregated by the year, and no production system break-outs are provided. 

The crop data identified by the generic term “vegetables” is inclusive of data for specific vegetables found in the FDW. 

Hectares are the normal areal units of measure for Armenia’s crop data, but production amounts may be given in either centners (100 kilograms) or tonnes, depending upon the reporting mechanism.

Crop statistics methodology

On the International methodological recommendations and guidelines page of its website, ARMSTAT appears to endorse the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020 as a preferred methodology for agricultural statistics.