Tajikistan – Baseline and Returning Migrant Worker Survey Round 1 (Dec 2022 - Feb 2023)

From December 2022 to February 2023, IOM Tajikistan assessed 859 villages across 12 districts with 1,875 key informant interviews (20% women) for its baseline assessment and conducted 979 surveys (12% women) with returning migrant workers in the country.

Three groups of populations were targeted in the baseline assessment: international migrant workers, returning migrant workers and emigrants. In the timeframe 2020-2022, IOM Tajikistan found 123,194 return migrant workers, 3,111 international migrant workers and 251,180 Tajiks were out as emigrants at the time of baseline assessment. Top three countries that migrant workers returned from were the Russian Federation (97%), Kazakhstan (2%), and Ukraine (0.4%).

Vahdat and Rudaki districts in the Districts of Central Subordination (DCS), Kulob city in Khatlon region and Sino district in Dushanbe city hosted the largest number of returning migrant workers respectively. An increase of 21 per cent was observed in 2021 compared to 2020 and another increase of 12 per cent in returns was observed in 2022 compared to 2021.