INDIANS ARE THE MOST COMMON EXPATS TO LEAVE KUWAIT, WITH 1,68,000 LEAVING IN THE LAST NINE MONTHS

  • 09/02/2022

Kuwait City: Domestic employees declined by roughly 60,385 male and female workers, bringing their total number to 608,230 male and female workers by the end of September 2021, compared to 668,615 men and female workers at the start of the year. Indians came first in this category, followed by Sri Lankans, Filipinos, Bangladeshis, and Nepalese. Citizens entered the job market in greater numbers during the first nine months of 2021, with 17,511 male and female citizens entering the labour market, up 4.3 percent to 424,180 from 406,670 on January 1, 2021. Foreign workers in Kuwait climbed by 1.5 percent on September 30, reaching 63,279, up from 62,300 on January 1, 2021.


The Indians topped the list of migrant workers leaving the labour market, with 48,000 male and female workers leaving, and their numbers fell from 499,400 to 451,380, a drop of about 10%; the Egyptians came in second, with their numbers falling by more than 5% from 482,000 to 456,600 in the first nine months of 2021. 

Bangladeshis were third, with a decrease of 6% from 171,400 at the start of the year to 161,140 on September 30, while Nepalese ranked fourth, with a decrease of 6% from 47,470 to 40,100. From the beginning of the year to the end of September 2021, the Filipino community recorded the fifth highest number of residents who left the labour market, dropping from 70,650 to 65,900; Pakistanis were sixth, with numbers falling from 73,550 to 70,380 thousand; Iranians were seventh, with numbers falling from 21,000 to 20,300; and Jordanians were eighth, with numbers falling from 25,190 to 25,190. 

According to government statistics, around 168,000 expatriates left Kuwait's labour market in the first nine months of 2021 (between January and September), comprising 60,400 male and female domestic workers and 107,900 male and female migrant workers from the commercial and public sectors. The labour market data shows that persons of all nationalities have left the labour market, with the exception of Syrians, whose numbers in the local labour market have increased.

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