Country of residence and year of reference
Country of	Bahrain	Kuwait	Oman	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	UAE
origin	2014	end 2012	2010	2013-2014	2013	2013-2014
Algeria	n.d.	845	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	10,000 (e)
Egypt	20,000	482,692	29,877	18,0000 (b)	1,370,000 (d)	400,000 (e)
Iraq	n.d.	15,262	4,159	8,976	20,000	52,000 (e)
Jordan	7,000	55,081	7,403	40,000 (b)	250,000	200,000 (e)
Lebanon	2,300 (a)	42,586	n.d.	25,000 (b)	160,000	100,000 (e)
Mauritania	n.d.	142	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	5,000 (e)
Morocco	800 (a)	3,495	n.d.	9,000 (b)	20,000 (a)	14,000
Palestine	5000 (a)	8,072	n.d.	20,500 (b)	500,000	150,000 (e)
Sudan	14000 (a)	4,551	6,867	42,000 (b)	500,000	75,000 (e)
Syria	3,000	135,554	n.d.	60,000 (c)	1,000,000 (c)	242,000 (c)
Tunisia	500 (a)	2,863	n.d.	15,000 (b)	12,000 (a)	4,500
Yemen	4,700	10,762	n.d.	40,000 (a)	800,000	90,000 (e)

Sources: GLMM and other sources (see below)

ANNEXED NOTE

Sources and Definitions

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.
Some of the figures quoted are unverifiable estimates. Therefore, they should be taken as indicative only and should not be used for statistical purposes.

Sources: unless stated otherwise, receiving countries’ estimates in relevant tables in the POP section of the GLMM database.
(a) UN/ DESA 2013 revision total migrants’ stocks by origin and destination countries
(b) 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/
(c) 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
(d) Official estimate: Egyptian workers in Saudi Arabia number 968,000 (end of 2013).
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/14187-egyptians-represent-40-per-cent-of-saudi-arabias-total-expatriate-workforce
“Estimates of family dependents: in the absence of any indication of the ratio of worker to family
dependents in the UAE, we use data available for Kuwait in 2012:”
2.4 workers per family dependent.
Estimates of Egyptians (total): 968,000+(968,000/2.4)= 1,371,000
(e) 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

Table as of December 15, 2015.

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