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Saudi Arabia: Workers employed in the government sector, by country of citizenship (2022)

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  Workers in government sector
Saudi Arabia 1,166,099
Algeria 235
Bahrain 5
Egypt 11,408
Iraq 9
Jordan 1,495
Kuwait 6
Lebanon 45
Libya 4
Mauritania 19
Morocco 74
Oman 1
Palestine 100
Sudan 8,562
Syria 1,708
Tunisia 1,516
UAE 1
Yemen 583
Arab countries 25,771
Afghanistan 7
Azerbaidjan 4
Bangladesh 364
Brunei 1
China 17
India 7,319
Indonesia 170
Japan 2
Kazakhstan 2
Malaysia 99
Nepal 2
Pakistan 2,748
Philippines 5,162
Singapore 2
South Korea 8
Sri Lanka 9
Thailand 1
Turkey 29
Uzbekistan 5
Asian countries 15,951
Botswana 132
Cameroon 3
Chad 2
Comoros 2
Djibouti 3
Eritrea 1
Ethiopia 6
Ghana 6
Guinea 1
Ivory Coast 3
Kenya 4
Mali 1
Nigeria 262
Senegal 1
Sierra Leone 3
Somalia 21
South Africa 23
Tanzania 2
Togo 1
Uganda 1
SS African countries 478
Belgium 4
Bosnia 3
Czech Republic 1
Denmark 5
Finland 1
France 36
Germany 29
Greece 19
Hungary 1
Ireland 13
Italy 6
Netherlands 7
Norway 2
Poland 1
Romania 8
Russia 32
Spain 3
Sweden 7
UK 185
Ukraine 2
Europe 365
Argentina 3
Canada 176
Colombia 1
Cuba 193
USA 151
Venezuela 1
Americas 525
Australia 42
New Zealand 5
Oceania 47
Unspecified 43
Total foreign workers 43,180
Total workers 1,209,279

Source: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD)

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

  1. Technical Notes and Definitions

 

Data do not include employees in the security and military sectors.

 

No metadata available. The administrative records used as a source of data is unmentioned.

 

The original dataset’s title (“Manpower in the Public sector during year 2020”), likely refers to Civil Service’s employees.

When compared to the results of GAStat Labour Force Survey (LFS) for Q4 of 2022, the totals of foreign workers in the “public” sector (43,027 in 2022, see table) were closer to the LFS’s figures of foreign workers in the Civil Service (44,065), than to the figures of foreign workers in the government sector (158,000). It is thus likely that MHRSD’s figures of workers in the “Public” sector are referring to Civil service workers.

Saudi and non-Saudi workers subscribing to the Social Insurance (GOSI) and working for the public sector (non-civil servants) are thus not included in the figures of workers in the government sector.

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD)

 

  1. Data availability

 

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD).

Datasets: “Workforce in the Government sector during year 2022” parts 1; 2; and 3, by administrative region.

https://od.data.gov.sa/Data/en/dataset/the-workforce-in-the-government-sector-during-the-year-2022

Datasets present data at the level of individuals, and indicate the worker’s gender, country of citizenship, age in single years, education level, educational speciality, the type of staff to which the employee belongs (education; health; employee; contract worker and others), location of the post (cities) and administrative region.

 

The dataset is only available in the Saudi government Open Data Portal – DATA.GOV.SA , Labor data.

 

Datasets are in Arabic only.

 

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.

 

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