The report said 1.358 million Uzbek citizens had traveled to Russia for employment in the same period of 2025, a decline of 179,000 over the past year.
For comparison, 1.495 million Uzbeks were working in Russia under labor patents in 2025, the report said.
The Central Bank noted that labor migration from Uzbekistan was expanding into other destinations even as the number of workers going to Russia declined. In 2025, the number of Uzbek migrants in the European Union increased by 13.2%, while the figure for Turkey rose by 10.7%.
As of July 1, 2026, around 70,000 Uzbek citizens were living in Turkey, up 9.3% year on year. South Korea was home to 102,200 Uzbeks, an increase of 3.3% compared with the previous year.
Remittances from Russia continue to grow
Despite the decline in labor migration to Russia, remittances sent from the country to Uzbekistan continued to increase. Transfers from Russia rose by 8.8% year on year in the first half of 2026, according to the Central Bank.
The regulator warned that a decline in labor migration to certain countries could eventually affect remittance inflows, household incomes and consumer demand in Uzbekistan.
The report also noted a 9.8% decrease in the number of advertised vacancies in the second quarter of 2026. At the same time, job-seeker activity remained high, intensifying competition in the labor market.
