THE CHANGING NATIONALITY COMPOSITION OF THE CENTRAL-ASIAN AND TRANSCAUCASIAN STATES

A World Bank demographer analyzes the pattern and levels of migration in eight southern-tier slates, covering the period from the 1989 censu s to the beginning of 1996. The focus of the paper is on the compositi on of migration streams by nationality and the impact that migration h as had on the changing population of the newly independent states form ed after the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. Recent data are t abulated and estimates discussed in detail disclosing the exodus of Ru ssians and movement of other nationalities in each of the Transcaucasi an (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) and Central Asian (Kazakhstan, K yrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) countries.