Country of residence and year of reference
	Bahrain	Kuwait	Oman	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	UAE
	2014	end 2012	mid-2016	2013-2014	2013	2013-2014
Egypt	20,000	482,692	51,796	180,000	1,300,000	400,000
Jordan	7,000	55,081	n,d,	40,000	250,000	200,000
Lebanon	2,300	42,586	n,d,	25,000	160,000	100,000
Morocco	800	3,495	n,d,	9,000	20,000	14,000
Palestine	5,000	8,072	n,d,	20,500	500,000	150,000
Syria	3,000	135,554	n,d,	60,000	1,000,000	242,000
Sudan	14,000	4,551	n,d,	42,000	500,000	75,000
Tunisia	500	2,863	n,d,	15,000	12,000	4,500
Yemen	4,700	10,762	n,d,	40,000	800,000	90,000
Ethiopia	1,129	77,279	16,529	21,374	150,000	90,000
Ghana	n,d,	791	n,d,	n,d,	n,d,	500
Kenya	n,d,	261	n,d,	9,300	n,d,	40,000
Bangladesh	98,221	190,171	666,856	150,000	1,500,000	700,000
India	257,663	692,525	776,829	545,000	2,000,000	2,600,000
Indonesia	29,553	14,036	21,143	39,000	1,500,000	85,000
Nepal	722	55,486	14,383	400,000	500,000	300,000
Pakistan	48,991	120,040	251,829	90,000	1,500,000	1,200,000
Philippines	29,722	161,742	40,276	200,000	670,000	525,530
Sri Lanka	7,627	109,860	19,787	100,000	550,000	300,000
Total non nationals	683,818	2,299,691	1,986,226	1,986,174	?*	7,800,000

Sources: see below

ANNEXED NOTE
Sources and Definitions
*official figure for the non-nationals mid-2013: 9,723,214. UN/DESA: 9,060,433
Figures of migrants in the GCC may be overestimated due to its comprising a large share of Gulf-born (second- and third- generation) non-nationals.
Palestinians are holders of travel documents.
Sources: unless stated otherwise, receiving countries’ estimates in relevant tables in the POP section of the GLMM database.
1. UN/ DESA 2013 revision total migrants’ stocks by origin and destination countries
2. Snoj, Jure. “Population of Qatar by nationality”, BQ Magazine, Doha, December 2014.
http://www.bqdoha.com/2013/12/population-qatar
http://gulfmigration.eu/qatar-estimates-of-foreign-nationals-residing-in-qatar-by-country-of-citizenship-selected-countries-2014/
and Snoj, Jure. “UAE’s population- by nationality”, BQ Magazine, Doha, April 12, 2015.
http://www.bq-magazine.com/economy/socioeconomics/2015/04/uae-population-by-nationality
3. Latest figures available as of October 2015, in: De Bel-Air, F. “A Note on Syrian Refugees in the Gulf: Attempting to Assess Data and Policies,” GLMM Explanatory Note, GLMM – EN – No. 11/2015 http://gulfmigration.eu/media/pubs/exno/GLMM_EN_2015_11.pdf
Table as of May 15, 2017.

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