Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyzstan Baseline Mobility Assessment (Round 3)

DTM implements the Baseline Mobility Assessment (BMA) in Kyrgyzstan to track mobility, provide information on population estimates, geographic distribution of migrant workers and return migrants, reasons for migration and countries of return. Data is collected at the village level from key informants and direct observations.

The Baseline Mobility Assessment (BMA) was conducted in all seven oblasts or provinces (Batken, Chui, Issyk-Kul, Jalal-Abad, Naryn, Osh, and Talas) including all 40 rayons or districts within these oblasts, and the two major cities of Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek city and Osh city including the four rayons within Osh city). This assessment covered 999 communities through interviews with 1,159 key informants. Based on the key informants' estimates, 34,966 international migrant workers have been hosted in the assessed communities in Kyrgyzstan from 2020 to April 2024. Concurrently, 44,391 internal migrants are hosted in the assessed communities and 227,629 Kyrgyz nationals are reported to be residing abroad as emigrants. In addition, 128,661 migrants have returned from abroad.