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

  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.

 

  1. 2. Institution which provides data

 

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

 

  1. 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.

 

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