Employed	% in employed population
Country	population	Nationals	Non-nationals
Bahrain	812,257	25.6	74.4
Kuwait	2,422,059	14.4	85.6
Oman	2,255,409	19.1	80.9
Qatar	2,052,687	4.9	95.1
Saudi Arabia	12,376,699	40.6	59.4
UAE	NA	NA	NA

Sources: national institutes of statistics

1- Definitions and remarks:
Non-nationals are:
1- persons bearing nationality of a foreign State other than the GCC State of residence, or bearing no proof of nationality from any given state
(stateless persons and holders of refugee status and travel document in a third country) ;
2- Holders of residence permit residing in the given GCC country at date of census, as per definition of residence used in each of the countries.

Employment refers to: all persons of working age (15 and above), who during a reference period worked to produce goods or provide services for pay (cash or kind)
or worked for profit from their own (or partially owned) business or worked without pay in the family business or with other individuals.
It also includes those who have a temporary absence from a job during the reference period due to vacation or illness or any other reason.

Kuwait: Data for 2015.
Oman: Employment data does not include those employed in the Defense, Armed Forces, and Police (Military) of the governmental sector.
UAE: No data available.

2- Sources of data:
Data is taken from:
GCC Stat. Labour Statistics in GCC Countries 2016, Issue n°4, March 2018.
https://gccstat.org/images/gccstat/docman/indicators/vital_employed_analysis_2016.xlsx

Last accessed: October 2018.

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