Recently released official figures reveal 182,506 Mongolians are employed in foreign countries, whilst 9,550 are there as students. An overwhelming majority of 90,000 of them are in Kazakhstan, with 46,000 holding dual citizenship. The second most popular destination for immigrant workers from here is South Korea, which now has 46,000 Mongolians.

Beijing has the most number of Mongolian students, with 2,344 of them, followed by 807 in Russia“s Irkutsk.