Migration loss of population has been replaced by a growth for the first time in Kyrgyzstan. HeadHunter recruitment company provides such data, which compared the number of job interview invitations in the first quarter of this year and the previous year.
According to its data, in the first quarter of 2023, employers in Kyrgyzstan invited four times more workers from Russia to work than in January — March 2022. This result is a direct consequence of last year’s influx of relocants and relocation of some Russian businesses to Central Asian countries.
Growing interest in Russian workers is demonstrated by the vast majority of countries where their labor is used. Overall, the demand for them abroad has more than doubled by one and a half times.
But some countries demonstrate even higher growth rates. Kyrgyzstan took the first place in the CIS, where the number of invitations of Russian workers to interviews in the first quarter of this year increased fourfold — from 1,200 to 4,800. In terms of the growth of demand for Russian specialists, the republic was ahead of all other former Soviet states, which last year became the main destinations of emigration of Russian relocants and business structures.
The majority of job offers abroad come from Russian companies, which last year moved their business to other countries due to the difficulties in running it under the sanctions. In other words, the growing number of such offers testifies to the relocation of Russian business to this or that country, which creates demand for Russian workers. The fact that Kyrgyzstan ranked among the first in this indicator testifies to its attractiveness for business emigration from Russia.
At the same time, in terms of the absolute number of invitations of Russian workers, the Kyrgyz Republic is understandably behind the larger countries in the region in economic, demographic and territorial terms.
While 4,800 invitations to work were sent from the Kyrgyz Republic, 7,000 were sent from Uzbekistan and 29,500 from Kazakhstan. At the same time, comparable demand for workers from the Russian Federation is demonstrated by Armenia (4,000).
For the first time since the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan registered a migratory population growth at the end of last year, caused by the excess of arrivals from the Russian Federation over departures.
Like all the republics of the former Soviet Union, except for Russia, the Kyrgyz Republic experienced migration outflow after gaining independence. In the 1990s, the republic lost 36,000 people annually, and from 1991 to 2000 the migration loss of population totaled 358,200.
