Number of refugees and forced resettlers

5.10. NUMBER OF REFUGEES AND FORCED RESETTLERS1) (persons)

	1995	2000	2002	2003	2004	2005	Total since the start of registra-tion as of January 1, 20062)	of which
	1995	2000	2002	2003	2004	2005		resettlers (since July 1, 1992)	refugees (since Mach 20, 1993 )
Total	271977	59196	20504	4726	4291	8914	168711	168253	458
out of them former permanent residents of:
Azerbaijan	12963	619	222	82	41	20	3340	3322	18
Armenia	1653	58	17	-	2	5	295	295	-
Belarus	188	-	-	-	-	-	7	7	-
Georgia	10778	4297	2801	2537	1889	60	18982	18868	114
Kazakhstan	88689	29026	9692	828	348	224	66020	66020	-
Kyrgyzstan	17769	1115	832	85	35	14	4266	4265	1
Latvia	5427	106	30	10	6	2	614	614	-
Lithuania	719	22	26	6	1	1	109	109	-
Moldova	2688	509	236	12	8	5	1405	1404	1
Russia3)	34871	9712	1199	414	1522	8380	36375	36375	-
Tajikistan	26982	3387	940	256	161	58	12168	12158	10
Turkmenistan	4574	279	109	29	33	17	1376	1376	-
Uzbekistan	59212	9352	4174	410	201	94	22264	22257	7
Ukraine	2262	392	146	8	2	5	821	821	-
Estonia	3171	127	30	15	2	6	339	339	-
other territories or those not specified	31	195	50	34	40	23	330	23	3074)

1) Data of Federal Migration Service on the number of citizens of the Russian Federation and foreign citizens given corresponding official status at its territorial bodies.2) Excluding those taken off the records.3) Excluding data on forced re-settlers from Republic of North Ossetia-Alania to Republic of Ingushetia and on those who applied to Federal Migration Service in connection with events in Chechen Republic in 1994-1996 and 1999-2001.4) Including 277 persons who formerly were permanent residents of Afghanistan; 10 of Iran; 6 - Rwanda; 5 - Israel; 5 - Iraq; 3 - Vietnam; and one person from each of the following countries - Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Serbia and Montenegro.

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