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Join Date: 27 Oct 2010
Location:  QatarPosts: 404 |
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Expatriate population in Kuwait drops by 17%Posted on 9/22/2011 |
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The rate of expatriate migrant worker population belonging to fifteen different nationalities in this country has reduced by 17 percent, reports local daily Kuwait Times. This is according to annual statistics released by the Migration General Department as of Sept 6. It suggests that the state’s efforts to tackle human trafficking and problems related to illegal residents has been successful, daily added.
As per the daily report, citizen’s account for 2.4 million after nearly 40,000 people left the country earlier this year to make use of an Amiri amnesty. It has enabled illegal residents to exit without facing legal troubles or paying fines. Other reasons that contribute to this reduction include launching a crackdown on non-existent companies that collect money from laborers. They then find themselves unemployed after arriving in Kuwait, as well as adopt policies to that boost the labor market. According to the report, 87,738 expat laborers work in the public sector and 965,486 in the private sector totaling to fifty percent of the total number of employees. There are 577,000 domestic workers (Article 20) live in Kuwait. Also, 414,166 expatriate residents in Kuwait are on a dependant’s visa (Article 22). Indian nationals form the largest community of expatriate residents in Kuwait, with 624,841 residents as of September 6. At least 19,457 Indians work in the public sector, with 282,568 employed in the private sector. Also, 238,000 are domestic workers. The Egyptian community comes in second place with 439, 845. At least 44, 614 are employed in the public sector, and 269,122 in the private sector. At least 124, 259 Egyptians are dependants. The Bangladeshi community forms the third largest expatriate community in Kuwait followed by Filipino, Syrian, Pakistani nationals. Sri Lankans comes in the seventh place followed by Ethiopians, Jordanian and Nepali community. |
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Join Date: 22 Jun 2011
Location:  KuwaitPosts: 448 |
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RE: Expatriate population in Kuwait drops by 17%Posted on 9/22/2011 |
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