In 2024, Tajikistan was leading as the country of origin of immigrants in Russia, with nearly ******* people changing their residence to Russia. The leading five origins were former republics of the Soviet Union.
In every year of the observed period, the sum of internal and international immigrants exceeded that of emigrants in Russia. In 2023, the emigrant count saw a decrease from the previous year. In aggregate terms, migration flows steadily decreased from 1990 to 2009. After 2010, the figures for in- and outflows started to recover. Why do Russians emigrate? A year after the Russia-Ukraine war began, more than one in ten Russians expressed their willingness to emigrate. The desire to provide children with a decent future was the leading reason for emigration, as cited by ** percent of respondents who were willing to leave the country. The allegedly worsening economic situation in Russia and high-quality medicine abroad also ranked high. Among those who emigrated in 2022, the majority chose the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries or countries near the CIS region. Incentives to migrate to Russia One of the countries with the largest gross domestic product (GDP) worldwide, Russia remains a popular immigration destination. In 2023, nearly ******* people came to Russia from Tajikistan. Further ****** and ****** arrived from Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, respectively. Russia’s visa-free regime with most post-Soviet states eases the entry into the country. For example, citizens of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan have the right to employment in Russia without obtaining a work permit. Citizens of Azerbaijan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan can enter Russia visa-free and obtain a work patent upon arrival.
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Number of Immigrants: CF: City of Moscow data was reported at 1,096.000 Person in Jan 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,842.000 Person for Dec 2023. Number of Immigrants: CF: City of Moscow data is updated monthly, averaging 1,469.000 Person from Jan 1998 (Median) to Jan 2024, with 311 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4,184.000 Person in Mar 2019 and a record low of 318.000 Person in Jan 2019. Number of Immigrants: CF: City of Moscow data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Demographic and Labour Market – Table RU.GE004: Number of Immigrants: by Region.
Over 560,000 people migrated to Russia from abroad in 2023, while approximately 450,500 left the country. Over the observed period, the volume of international migrant arrivals to Russia was always greater than that of departures. During the period from 2001 to 2010, international migration in the country was significantly lower.
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<li>Russia immigration statistics for 2010 was <strong>11,194,710</strong>, a <strong>4.05% decline</strong> from 2005.</li>
<li>Russia immigration statistics for 2005 was <strong>11,667,588</strong>, a <strong>1.96% decline</strong> from 2000.</li>
<li>Russia immigration statistics for 2000 was <strong>11,900,297</strong>, a <strong>0.24% decline</strong> from 1995.</li>
</ul>International migrant stock is the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live. It also includes refugees. The data used to estimate the international migrant stock at a particular time are obtained mainly from population censuses. The estimates are derived from the data on foreign-born population--people who have residence in one country but were born in another country. When data on the foreign-born population are not available, data on foreign population--that is, people who are citizens of a country other than the country in which they reside--are used as estimates. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 people living in one of the newly independent countries who were born in another were classified as international migrants. Estimates of migrant stock in the newly independent states from 1990 on are based on the 1989 census of the Soviet Union. For countries with information on the international migrant stock for at least two points in time, interpolation or extrapolation was used to estimate the international migrant stock on July 1 of the reference years. For countries with only one observation, estimates for the reference years were derived using rates of change in the migrant stock in the years preceding or following the single observation available. A model was used to estimate migrants for countries that had no data.
Tajikistan was the leading country of destination of Russian emigrants in 2024, with around 92,000 people changing their residence to that country. Among countries that were not former Soviet Union states, the major destinations were India, China, and Vietnam.
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Abstract The aim of this article is to research the main characteristics of two Russian groups coming to the State of São Paulo after World War II: DPs from Europe and Russian refugees from China. To that end, data contained in the database on DPs in the State of São Paulo, consolidated by Salles et al. (2013), was systematized and analyzed. Research revealed that the Brazilian policy on admission of DPs as industrial workforce had direct impact on the profile of the Russian population selected to immigrate to Brazil, mainly moving to the capital of the State of São Paulo. Russian refugees from China had a different demographic and social profile; the group had the most women and children and employed predominantly in the service sector. The professional characteristics of these two groups determined their distribution in the districts of São Paulo. As Europe’s Russian DPs moved to peripheral and industrial districts, Russians from China settled in neighborhoods closer to the city center.
In 2020, approximately 10.76 million migrants of Russian origin lived abroad worldwide, which was nearly 580 thousand people more than in the previous year. The migrant stock has decreased since 1990, when it was nearly 12.7 million.
The largest number of Russians living abroad was recorded in Europe, measuring at nearly 6.2 million people in 2020. Furthermore, over four million Russians resided in Asian countries. Northern America was a residence of nearly 482 thousand people who were born in Russia.
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BackgroundIn migration and health research, the healthy migrant effect has been a common finding, but it usually pertains to specific contexts only. Existing findings are inconsistent and inconclusive regarding the cognitive functioning of the (aging) foreign-origin population relative to the populations of their host and sending countries. Moreover, this comparison is an understudied design setting.ObjectiveWe analyze the outcomes and associations of cognitive functioning outcomes of the non-institutionalized middle-aged and older population, comparing the Russian-origin population in Estonia with Estonians in Estonia and Russians in Russia in a cross-sectional design. We aim to estimate the (long-term) effects of migration on cognitive functioning in later life, contextualizing the findings in previous research on the healthy migrant effect.Data and methodsWe use data from face-to-face interviews conducted within the SHARE Estonia (2010–2011) and SAGE Russia (2007–2010) surveys. Respondents aged 50+ living in urban areas were grouped by self-identified ethnicity, including 2,365 Estonians, 1,373 Russians in Estonia, and 2,339 Russians in Russia (total N = 6,077). Cognitive functioning was measured using a 25-percentile cut-off threshold for the results of two cognition outcomes - immediate recall and verbal fluency - and the odds of impairment were estimated using binary logistic regression.ResultsRussian men and women living in Estonia have significantly higher odds of impairment in immediate recall than Estonian men and women, though they do not differ from Russians in Russia in the final adjusted models. The differences between all groups are non-significant if age at migration is considered. There are no significant differences between the groups in verbal fluency.ConclusionContrary to the commonly found healthy migrant effect, the middle-aged and older foreign-origin population in Estonia fares initially worse than the native population in the immediate recall outcome, but does not differ from their sending country population, possibly due to Russia’s higher mortality rate and therefore the selective survival of healthier people. Different results depending on the cognitive functioning outcome suggest that migration may affect temporary memory more than crystallized knowledge. However, there are no differences between the groups if defined based on age at migration, which suggests that the age profile differences explain most of the groups’ differences in cognitive functioning.
This chart shows the distribution of the number of Russian immigrants living in France in 2019, by age group. In total, France welcomed more than 53,532 Russian immigrants that year.
Nearly ********** of Russian residents fully or rather agreed with the statement that immigrants are increasing the crime level in the country, according to a survey from April 2025. Furthermore, more than **** believed immigrants are occupying jobs of Russian nationals. Overall, roughly ** percent of respondents supported the opinion that immigrants contribute positively to the country's economic development.
The number of people with Russian citizenship living in European countries as of January 1, 2023, was by far the highest in Germany. The country's population includes around 260,000 Russian citizens. That was more than double the number of Russian citizens living in Spain. To compare, over 35,400 Russian nationals resided in Czechia.
This Gallup poll seeks the opinions of Canadians on various topics. Included in the discussion are questions about problems facing the country and their solutions, issues involving unemployment, US presidential elections, political party preference, and ways to preventwar. Respondents were also asked questions so that they could be grouped according to geographic, demographic, and social variables. Topics of interest include: alcohol consumption; world conflicts; personal savings; John Diefenbaker, voting behaviour; neutral and non neutral countries; federal elections; power of the Provinces; immigration; and union membership. Basic demographics variables are also included.
As of January 1, 2023, over 13.1 million persons resided in Moscow, the largest city in Russia and Europe. The population of the Russian capital increased slightly from the previous year. The number of Moscow residents crossed the 13-million mark in 2021. Starting from 2012, the city’s population grew by roughly 1.5 million. Moscow is one of the world’s megacities with the largest land area, which exceeds 6,600 square kilometers. Cost of living in Moscow While prices in Moscow are higher than in most other cities of Russia, they are lower than in many other megacities around the world, such as Singapore, New York, and Paris. In 2023, Moscow recorded the largest drop in the rank in the list of the most expensive cities worldwide, at 105 positions. Moscow residents earned an average net salary of 128,300 Russian rubles per month in 2022. Immigration to Moscow Due to the presence of various companies, job opportunities, higher salaries than in most other regions of the country, acclaimed universities, and highly developed infrastructure, Moscow is an attractive destination for both internal and international immigrants. In 2022, more than 940,000 Russian residents migrated to the Central Federal District of the country, where Moscow is located. From the international immigrants, the largest share comes from Central Asian countries.
When populations decrease in size and may become isolated, genomic erosion by loss of diversity from genetic drift and accumulation of deleterious mutations is likely an inevitable consequence. In such cases, immigration (genetic rescue) is necessary to restore levels of genetic diversity and counteract inbreeding depression. Recent work in conservation genomics have studied these processes focusing on genetic diversity of single nucleotide polymorphisms. In contrast, our knowledge about structural genomic variation (insertions, deletions, duplications and inversions) in endangered species is limited. We analysed whole-genome, short-read sequences from 212 wolves from the inbred Scandinavian population, and from neighbouring populations in Finland and Russia, and detected >35,000 structural variants (SVs) after stringent quality and genotype frequency filtering; >26,000 high-confidence variants remained after manual curation. The majority of variants were shorter than 1 kb, with a..., , , # Structural genomic variation in the inbred Scandinavian wolf population contributes to the realized genetic load but is positively affected by immigration
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Citation: Smeds, L., Huson, L.S.A. & Ellegren, H. (2024). Evolutionary Applications, 17:e13652.
This datasets contain genotypes for structural variants for Scandinavian, Finnish and Russian wolves, both raw variants from the Smoove pipeline, and the final set of variants after quality filtering, genotype frequency filtering and manual curation.
The genotypes are saved in vcf format, and the file structure and names are identical to what's described in the GitHub code.
Genotypes for 212 wolves generated by the Smoove pipeline: data/smove/annotated/cohort.smoove.square.anno.vcf.gz
Final variants divided into types (DEL=deletions, DUP=duplications, INV=inversions), quality filtered and manually inspected by 1 curator: data/curated/1cur.strict.....
Over 11.6 million foreign-born people lived in Russia as of July 1, 2020. The country hosted the largest population born abroad among Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, followed by Ukraine and Belarus.
Over 1.2 million refugees from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion fled to Germany as of April 2025. Furthermore, the second-highest number was recorded in Poland. In total, around 5.1 million Ukrainian refugees were registered across Europe and 5.6 million worldwide as of May 2025. Most of them fled the country by crossing the border with Poland. Ukrainian refugees in Germany The first increases in the number of Ukrainian refugees in Germany were registered in March and April 2022. The figure exceeded one million refugees in September of that year. Germany had the highest monthly financial allowance for Ukrainians who fled the war compared to other European countries as of June 2022. Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees in the EU European Union (EU) members implemented the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), which guaranteed access to accommodation, welfare, and healthcare to refugees from Ukraine. People fleeing the war had a right to a residence permit in the EU, enter the labor market, and enroll children in educational institutions. The protection is granted until March 4, 2026, but it can be extended in the future depending on the situation in the country.
The majority of immigrants in Poland in 2023 were from Ukraine (40,000), a decrease of 14 percent compared to the previous year. Immigration to Poland for different reasons In 2022, nearly 14,000 people immigrated to Poland for permanent residence, of which most came from Ukraine, the UK, and Germany, respectively. Furthermore, the majority of immigrants for temporary stay in Poland in 2022 were from Ukraine (46,000 immigrants), a decrease of 1.5 percent compared to the previous year. In 2023, most Ukrainian citizens chose Poland as a place for economic emigration. The main reason for that choice was geographical and cultural proximity. Nearly every second respondent valued the low language barrier, and for every third person, the motivation was earnings. Poles attitudes toward Russia’s war with Ukraine In 2022, most Poles had a negative attitude toward Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Poles’ biggest concerns about the Russia-Ukraine war were the military threats from Russia and the impact of the war on the condition of the Polish economy. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Poles proved their support for Ukrainians. One of the most common forms of support for refugees fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war to Poland was to provide blankets, food, and hygiene items. Four out of 10 Poles donated money to a charity fundraiser and volunteered in organizations.
In 2023, over 46,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel from over 50 countries. Among all incoming immigrants that year, over 70 percent previously resided in Russia, six percent in former USSR countries, and five percent arrived from Ukraine. Jewish diaspora immigration to Israel increased recently due to the influx of Russian and Ukrainian citizens fleeing their countries following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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