Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The number of foreign citizens who visited the Republic of Uzbekistan in January-December 2019 was 8.28 million people. This indicator increased by 28.7% compared to the corresponding period of last year.

According to the Uzbek State Statistics Committee, as for the departure of Uzbek citizens abroad, their number has reached 12.93 million people. Compared to January-December 2018, this indicator decreased by 6.5%.

Foreign citizens who arrived in the Republic of Uzbekistan from the CIS countries made up 7.66 million people, which reached 92.5% of their total number, and from foreign countries – 617,600 people (7.5% of their total number). The number of citizens of Uzbekistan who left the Republic in January-December 2019 for the CIS countries reached 12.3 million people, which was 95.2% of the total number of citizens who left, and 627,000 people (4.8% of the total number) for foreign countries.

Judging by the dynamics of the number of foreign citizens who came to Uzbekistan, their significant influx was noted in the period from January-December 2018 to January-December 2019 - an increase of 1.84 million people. Meanwhile, the flow of Uzbek citizens abroad decreased from 13.83 million people in January-December 2018 to 12.93 million people for the corresponding period in 2019.

In January-December 2019, the following trend was observed in the country: mostly men, from the number of foreigners who arrived, made up 54.4% (4.5 million people), while women accounted for 45.6% (3.77 million people). At the same time, men (citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan) who left the country made up 57.9% (7.48 million people), women – 42.1% (5.44 million people).

The largest flow of foreign citizens to Uzbekistan was noted from the following neighboring countries: Kazakhstan – 2.45 million people (29.7% of the total number of arrivals), Tajikistan – 2.39 million (28.9%), Kyrgyzstan – 1.53 million (18.5%), Russia – 592,400 (7.2%), Turkmenistan – 629.600 (7.6%), Belarus – 20,400 (0.2%).

From foreign countries, the largest flow was observed from Turkey – 108,000 people (1.3%), China – 61,900 people (0.7%), South Korea – 40,600 people (0.5%), India – 32,100 people (0.4%), Germany – 29,000 people (0.3%), Japan – 25,200 people (0.3%), France, Italy and Israel – 21,200, 20,800 and 13,900 people, respectively.

The main part of the citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan, who left for neighboring countries (42.4%) is accounted for the outflow to Kazakhstan (5.48 million people) and, further, to Kyrgyzstan - 29.9% (3.87 million people). 1.32 million people (10.2%) left for Russia. 1.51 million people (11.7%) went to Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus and Azerbaijan – 92,800, 13,700 and 13,500 people, respectively.

The largest outflows to foreign countries were, in particular, recorded in Turkey (219.4 thousand people), South Korea (83.3 thousand people), the United Arab Emirates (65.8 thousand people), Saudi Arabia (51.3 thousand people), China (35.7 thousand people), India (26.4 thousand people) and the USA (24.3 thousand people).

The purpose of a significant number of foreign citizens entering Uzbekistan is to visit relatives (66.7%). The smallest share of the entered foreign citizens is for travel purposes - 12.6%, transit - 10.7%, treatment - 0.7%, work - 0.7%, commercial - 0.7%, permanent residence – 0.6%, service - 0.6%, study - 0.3% and others - 6.5%.

In January-December 2019, the purpose of the trip of 21.4 thousand foreign nationals (42.5% of men and 57.5% of women) were to study, 54.0 thousand (75.8% of men and 24.2% of women) - to work, 53.1 thousand (82.3% of men and 17.7% of women) - business trip, 55.5 thousand (43.3% of men and 56.7% of women) - treatment, 1 043.9 thousand (47.4% of men and 52.6% of women) - travel, 5 520.7 thousand (47.2% of men and 52.8% of women) - to visit relatives.

Based on the analysis of the distribution of foreigners who entered the Republic of Uzbekistan in January-December 2019 by age, the main contingent was people aged 31-55 years old - 52.3%, 19-30 years old - 21.1%, 56 years old and older - 17.9%, 0-18 years old - 8.6%. 50.4% of foreigners aged 31-55 years, 21.7% – aged 19-30 years, 19.1% – aged 56 years and older arrived for health purposes. 51.0% of foreign citizens aged 31-55 years, 18.9% of those aged 19-30 years, and 20.2% of those aged 56 years and older visited relatives. For the purpose of travel, 51.7% of foreigners aged 31-55 years, 21.4% – aged 19-30 years, 21.4% – aged 56 years and older arrived.

In January-December 2019, 0.8 thousand foreign citizens who arrived for business trips under the age of 18 were men and 0.7 thousand women, at the age of 19-30 – 5.6 thousand men and 1.8 thousand women, at the age of 31- 55 – 30.8 thousand men and 5.8 thousand women, from 56 years and older – 6.6 thousand men and 1.1 thousand women.

For the purpose of the trip, 28.7 thousand men and 28.1 thousand women under the age of 18 years, 111.8 thousand men and 111.9 thousand women aged 19 to 30 years, 263.4 thousand men and 276.2 thousand women aged 31 to 55 years, 91.4 thousand men and 132.5 thousand women over the age of 56 years arrived.

The largest number of citizens of Uzbekistan who have left its borders, aims to visit relatives - 58.8%, job search - 26.7%, the lowest - permanent residence - 2.8%, study - 0.8%, travel-4.7%, business trip - 0.7%, transit - 0.4%, treatment - 0.3%, other - 4.8%.

Based on the analysis of data on the distribution of citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan who left in January-December 2019 by age, it can be noted that the majority of those who left were people aged 31-55 years old - 52.0%, 19-30 years old - 29.9%, 56 years and older - 12.4%, 0-18 years old - 5.7%.

In January-December 2019 the purpose of the trip departures of citizens of Uzbekistan of 90.8 thousand people (90.7% men and 9.3% women) was business trip, 104.4 thousand people – to study (60.5% men and 39.5% women), 606.1 thousand people (51.9% men and 48.1% women) – travel, 3 452.5 thousand people (76.4% men and 23.6% women) – work, 7 599.3 thousand (47.5% men and 52.5% women) – visiting relatives, 37.2 million people (44.2% men and 55.8% women) – treatment. 50.7% of citizens aged 31-55 years old, 20.3% - 19-30 years old, 20.0% - 56 years old and older left for the purpose of travel. 75.6% of people aged 19-30 years, 18.2% - under the age of 18 years went to study. 69.6% of people aged 31-55 years, 18.4% - aged 19-30 years left the country for business trip.