Over 839,000 expats exit labor market in 9M 2018

05/02/2019 Argaam Special

 

About 839,240 expatriates have left the Saudi labor market during the first nine months of 2018, of which 819,300 were males while 20,000 were females, new figures from the kingdom’s General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) showed.

 

The number of expatriates working in Saudi Arabia reached 9.58 million employees at the end of Q3 2018 compared to 10.42 million in 2017.

 

Expats Working in Saudi Arabia

 

Q4 2017

Q3 2018

Variation

Male

9,442,163

8,622,890

(819,273)

Female

975,132

955,165

(19,967)

Total

10,417,295

9,578,055

(839,240)

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