Table 9: Ethnicity of stateless individuals
Ethnicity
Avar
Azeri
Afghan
Belarussian
Dungan
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Russian
Tajik
Turkish
Uzbek
Ukrainian
Chechen
No indication
TOTAL
Number of people
1
6
1
1
7
5
372
9
32
4
24
4
1
252
719
%
0.14%
0.83%
0.14%
0.14%
0.97%
0.70%
51.74%
1.25%
4.45%
0.56%
3.34%
0.56%
0.14%
35.05%
100%
Table 10: Country of birth of stateless persons
Country of birth
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Russia
Azerbaijan
No indication
TOTAL
Number of people
53
586
39
18
5
5
2
11
719
%
7.37%
81.50%
5.42%
2.50%
0.70%
0.70%
0.28%
1.53%
100%
Table 10 shows that most stateless respondents were migrants from Tajikistan of Kyrgyz ethnicity. 260 (29 percent) of the 719 stateless respondents hold USSR passports.
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