Males	Females	Total
Saudi Arabia	676,904	489,195	1,166,099
Algeria	188	47	235
Bahrain	3	2	5
Egypt	7,667	3,741	11,408
Iraq	5	4	9
Jordan	1,193	302	1,495
Kuwait	1	5	6
Lebanon	35	10	45
Libya	2	2	4
Mauritania	18	1	19
Morocco	49	25	74
Oman	0	1	1
Palestine	76	24	100
Sudan	4,517	4,045	8,562
Syria	1,470	238	1,708
Tunisia	930	586	1,516
UAE	0	1	1
Yemen	502	81	583
Arab countries	16,656	9,115	25,771
Afghanistan	6	1	7
Azerbaijan	4	0	4
Bangladesh	286	78	364
Brunei	1	0	1
China	9	8	17
India	2,216	5,103	7,319
Indonesia	26	144	170
Japan	2	0	2
Kazakhstan	2	0	2
Malaysia	20	79	99
Nepal	2	0	2
Pakistan	1,912	836	2,748
Philippines	325	4,837	5,162
Singapore	2	0	2
South Korea	5	3	8
Sri Lanka	5	4	9
Thailand	0	1	1
Turkey	28	1	29
Uzbekistan	5	0	5
Asian countries	4,856	11,095	15,951
Botswana	94	38	132
Cameroon	3	0	3
Chad	2	0	2
Comoros	2	0	2
Djibouti	2	1	3
Eritrea	0	1	1
Ethiopia	6	0	6
Ghana	5	1	6
Guinea	1	0	1
Ivory Coast	1	2	3
Kenya	3	1	4
Mali	1	0	1
Nigeria	213	49	262
Senegal	1	0	1
Sierra Leone	2	1	3
Somalia	7	14	21
South Africa	18	5	23
Tanzania	2	0	2
Togo	1	0	1
Uganda	1	0	1
SS African countries	365	113	478
Belgium	4	0	4
Bosnia	3	0	3
Czech Republic	1	0	1
Denmark	5	0	5
Finland	1	0	1
France	27	9	36
Germany	25	4	29
Greece	16	3	19
Hungary	1	0	1
Ireland	13	0	13
Italy	6	0	6
Netherlands	4	3	7
Norway	2	0	2
Poland	1	0	1
Romania	6	2	8
Russia	22	10	32
Spain	3	0	3
Sweden	5	2	7
UK	161	24	185
Ukraine	0	2	2
Europe	306	59	365
Argentina	2	1	3
Canada	150	26	176
Colombia	1	0	1
Cuba	112	81	193
USA	128	23	151
Venezuela	0	1	1
Americas	393	132	525
Australia	38	4	42
New Zealand	3	2	5
Oceania	41	6	47
Unspecified	23	20	43
Total foreign workers	22,640	20,540	43,180
Total workers gov. sector	699,544	509,735	1,209,279

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

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. 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.

 

2. 2. Institution which provides data

 

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

 

3. 3. 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.

 

Keywords: Saudi Arabia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Thailand, Korea (South), Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, USA, Arab Countries, Labour Market, Employment, Female Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour

 

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