13 May 2024
From 6 to 8 May 2024, the Expert Group Meeting on Statistics and Migration was held in Geneva. During the event, issues of generating statistical data on migration in the UNECE region, strengthening regional cooperation, preparing official statistics on refugees, internally displaced persons and stateless persons and other issues were discussed.
The experience of the Republic of Belarus was presented by the Deputy Chairman of the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus Vasilevskaya Zh.N. In her speech, she noted that the results obtained during the population census are the most complete, universal and comparable, which allows for cross-country comparisons of internal and external migration. According to the latest census data, in Belarus, internal migration significantly exceeded external migration and amounted to 3.4 million people, of which 57.6% – women. Among the main reasons for changing place of residence are: family circumstances – 54.8%, work – 19.8%, return to the previous place of residence – 8.2%. There is an increase in the share of Belarusians in the structure of the country’s population. Among the methods of data dissemination, the information and analytical system «Final Census Data», the 10% micro-sample based on the 2019 population census, the information and analytical system «Geostatistics» were noted.
More detailed information about the participation of the Belarusian delegation in the Meeting can be found at the link.
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