Currency: Armenian Dram (AD)
Dialing Code: +374
Official Language: Armenian
Religion: Christianity
A literacy rate of 100% was reported as early as 1960. The numeracy level was amongst the lowest in the late 18th and 19th centuries, which might be an outcome of Ottoman and Persian education policies that only gradually improved during the Russian period. In the communist era, Armenian education followed the standard Soviet model of complete state control (from Moscow) of curricula and teaching methods and close integration of education activities with other aspects of society, such as politics, culture, and the economy. As in the Soviet period, primary and secondary education in Armenia is free, and completion of secondary school is compulsory.
In the early 1990s,
Armenia made substantial changes to the centralized and regimented Soviet
system. Because at least 98% of students in higher education were Armenian,
curricula began to emphasize Armenian history and culture. Armenian became the
dominant language of instruction, and many schools that had taught in Russian
closed by the end of 1991. Russian is the second widely taught language.
