Nearly 1 million Tajik migrants in a quarter

In just 3 months, about 1 million labor migrants from Tajikistan have gone to Russia. The increase in the flow of Tajik migrants ranked first among countries worldwide in percentage terms.

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According to migration statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the second quarter of 2022, 3.12 million foreigners came to Russia for work, which is one-third more than last year’s figure and is a record quarterly value for at least the last 6 years.

It is reported that the largest number of labor migrants arrived from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Among the regions that received the most foreign workers, Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Krasnodar Krai, Irkutsk Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Primorsky Krai, Amur Region, Samara Region, and Krasnoyarsk Krai led the way.

In the second quarter of this year, 4.16 million foreigners registered for migration accounting for their place of stay, with 3.12 million people (75%) indicating work as the purpose of their arrival. This is a record high quarterly value for the entire period of available statistics since 2017. The number of labor migrants in the second quarter of 2022 was one-third higher than the previous year – during the same period in 2021, only 2.34 million foreigners came to Russia for work. In the first quarter of 2022, the number of foreign workers entering the country was 2.76 million.

Citizens of Uzbekistan made up almost half of all migrants (1.54 million people, or 49.6%), while about a third were from Tajikistan (952 thousand people, or 30.5% of all labor migrants). Citizens of Kyrgyzstan (223.4 thousand people, or 7.2%), Armenia (108.2 thousand people, or 3.5%), Azerbaijan (79 thousand people, or 2.5%), Belarus (42.7 thousand people, or 1.4%), Kazakhstan (34.6 thousand people, or 1.1%), China (32.2 thousand people, or 1%), Ukraine (excluding DNR and LNR; 28.2 thousand people, or 0.9%), and Moldova (17.2 thousand people, or 0.6%) also came to work in Russia. Migrants from other countries accounted for 1.7%, or 54.2 thousand people.

According to the source, the largest increase is observed among citizens of Tajikistan. In the second quarter of this year, the number of labor migrants from Tajikistan increased by 406.9 thousand people or 74.6% compared to the same period last year, ranking first among other countries in percentage terms. For example, the increase in the number of labor migrants from Uzbekistan during the same period was 36%.