Regions of Kyrgyzstan with largest number of people leaving country announced

13:03, 30 ноября 2018, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Jazgul MASALIEVA

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.