Oman: Employed foreign workers by country of citizenship (all sectors, selected nationalities) (2013-2022)

  2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Egypt 22,941 23,325 24,532 25,985 28,510 31,725 35,048 30,961 30,998 37,832
Sudan         7,771  
Yemen           11,417
Bangladesh 501,357 540,481 590,170 698,881 692,164 658,222 630,681 553,963 531,053 654,529
India 599,473 603,473 669,882 689,600 688,226 660,736 617,730 492,303 471,178 529,884
Pakistan 223,984 214,333 220,112 232,426 234,163 217,602 207,288 180,629 194,048 261,300
Philippines 28,958 31,287 34,511 40,976 45,063 47,896 49,456 44,097 45,388 48,030
Sri Lanka 12,344 13,481 15,752 19,210 20,640 20,925 23,099 20,717 19,129 26,232
Nepal 12,842 12,808 13,292 15,308 17,194 17,057 16,571 14,025 16,800 20,623
Indonesia 29,759 37,619 32,535 19,216        
Ethiopia 43,873 34,000 24,009 16,673        
Tanzania     11,709 13,818 14,742 13,555 12,224 11,526
Uganda     24,449 31,288 20,997 11,098    
Other countries 51,710 59,325 72,876 89,900 92,762 88,178 97,186 81,780 80,884 105,935
Total 1,527,241 1,570,132 1,697,671 1,848,175 1,854,880 1,787,447 1,712,798 1,443,128 1,409,473 1,707,308

Source: NCSI, Monthly Statistical Bulletin          

               

ANNEXED NOTE               

               

  1. Technical Notes and Definitions

               

Period of reference: December of the given year.

 

Data refer to the foreign population employed in all sectors (governmental, private and domestic sectors).     

Independent, own-account workers are classified in the domestic sector.

The top-9 most numerous nationalities are listed every year.

 

Original source of the data: Royal Oman Police (ROP) records.

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI)

 

  1. Data availability

 

The data is available in NCSI’s Monthly Statistical Bulletins (January of the year following the reference year).

https://www.ncsi.gov.om/Elibrary/Pages/LibraryContentView.aspx

 

Last date of access: May 2023.

GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change; that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from; that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.             

               

Keywords: Oman, Foreign Labour, Employment, Female Employment, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Philippines, Egypt, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Yemen