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Regions of Kyrgyzstan with largest number of people leaving country announced

Most often, residents of Batken region leave the country in search of earnings. The Chairman of the State Migration Service of Kyrgyzstan, Bolotbek Ibraimzhanov, announced this at a meeting of Respublika-Ata Jurt parliamentary faction.

According to him, 265,000 labor migrants (35 percent) are residents of Batken, 227,000 (27 percent) — Jalal-Abad, 155,000 — Osh and 11,000 — Chui regions.

In total, according to official data, 750,000 Kyrgyzstanis are working outside the country. Eighty percent of them are in Russia, 10 percent — in Kazakhstan, the rest — in other states.

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