Armenia
Republic of Armenia
- Capital
- Yerevan
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 3.1 million
- Currency
- AMD
- Area
- 29,743 km²
Across Armenia's 5 priced cities, one person needs about $1,549 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $682.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%34
- Safety20%78
- Health care15%60
- Climate10%63
- Air quality10%73
- Connectivity10%40
- Cost10%43
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #87
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 22%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 5%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 78.0
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 22.0
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 2.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #90 worldwide
- 90
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #60 worldwide
- 76
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +26%
Cities in Armenia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Arabkir | 65 | — | — | — | — | 119.3K | Low confidence |
| 2Malatia-Sebastia | 64 | — | — | — | — | 150.5K | Low confidence |
| 3Shengavit | 64 | — | — | — | — | 140.6K | Low confidence |
| 4Nor Nork | 64 | — | — | — | — | 137.3K | Low confidence |
| 5Kentron | 64 | — | — | — | — | 133K | Low confidence |
| 6Erebuni | 64 | — | — | — | — | 129.7K | Low confidence |
| 7Ajapnyak | 64 | — | — | — | — | 122.8K | Low confidence |
| 8Yerevan | 55 | 45.2 | $870 | $682 | 50.3 | 1.1M | High confidence, 116 contributors |
| 9Gyumri | 55 | 35.5 | $469 | $491 | 56.0 | 114.7K | High confidence, 21 contributors |
| 10Yeghegnadzor | 54 | 43.9 | — | — | — | 7.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 11Abovyan | 54 | 44.0 | — | $991 | 90.2 | 50.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 12Masis | 53 | — | — | — | — | 23.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 13Ijevan | 53 | — | — | — | — | 19.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Ashtarak | 53 | — | — | $827 | — | 17.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Alaverdi | 53 | — | — | $1,006 | — | 12.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Vanadzor | 52 | 35.4 | $276 | $432 | 61.1 | 78.1K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |