DUSHANBE, April 9, 2013, Asia-Plus — According to the Tajik migration service agency, some 270,000 people have left Tajikistan over the first three months of this year. Of them, more than 221,000 people, including 24,000 women, are labor migrants who have left the country seeking better employment opportunities.
The overwhelming majority of them is residents of Khatlon province – more than 98,000 people.
77,000 residents of Sughd province, little more than 57,000 residents of districts subordinate to the center, more than 21,100 residents of Dushanbe and more than 14,100 residents of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) have left the country over the same three-month period.
According to statistical data from the Migration Service under the Government of Tajikistan, some 745,000 people left Tajikistan last year, which was 6,000 people fewer than in 2011. More than 88,000 of those who left the country for seasonal work last year are women.
Meanwhile, according to data of Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS), a total number of Tajik labor migrants currently working in the Russian Federation is 1.1 million people.
