Migrant workers in Russia

Foreign migrant workers in Russia, commonly referred to as gastarbeiters (Russian: гастарбайтеры, romanized: gastarbaytery), form a significant part of Russia's workforce since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The labor migrants make up 10% of the labor force in Russia, the significant number of them being illegal immigrants. The majority of recent immigrants to Russia come from former Soviet republics, especially Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. As of 2020, according to the UN, Russia ranks 4th in the world in terms of the number of international migrants in absolute numbers (11,58 million people, or 7,9% of the population), after the United States (43,43 million people, or 13,1% of the population), Germany (14,22 million people, or 17,0% of the population), and Saudi Arabia (13,00 million people, or 37,3% of the population).

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