After a significant decline in earlier decades, crude birth rates in Armenia remained at a nearly-constant 13.0–14.2 per 1000 people in the years 1998–2015. In the same period, the crude death rate went from 8.6 to 9.3 per 1000 people. Note that crude rates are not age-adjusted. Life expectancy at birth at 74.8 years was the 4th highest among the post-USSR countries in 2014.