During the 8 months of 2023, 28 thousand 207 citizens of Uzbekistan were employed in foreign countries in an organized manner, the Foreign Labor Migration Agency reports.

In particular, most of them went to Russia (20,450), South Korea (3,184) and Great Britain (1,809).

In addition, 1,037 unemployed citizens residing in Russia, 100 in Kazakhstan, and 55 in Great Britain were employed.

In January-August, legal assistance was provided to 9,298 labor migrants, counseling services were provided to 161,610 migrants, social assistance was provided to 8,006 people, and financial assistance was provided to 1,993 people.

$676.3 thousand of wages and monetary compensations of labor migrants, which have not been paid by the employers, have been recovered.

In July 2023, Minister of Employment Behzod Musayev said that the number of Uzbek migrants returning, not leaving the country, is increasing year by year. According to him, there are 2 million migrants. In 2022-2023, 60,000 people were sent to work on an organizational basis, and their average salary was $1,200.