Socio-economic determinants of external migration relations of the Russian Federation

The subject of the article is the external migration relations of the Russian Federation in the period 2001-2019.the purpose of the research Is to use statistical methods to analyze and forecast the impact of economic factors on external migration. For countries involved in migration exchange with the Russian Federation, GDP, wage, and unemployment trends are analyzed and compared. The analysis method includes calculation of correlation coefficients and parameters of multiple regression equations. The resulting equations are proposed to be used for predicting migration relations.