2005			2006			2007
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Egypt	85,025	3,925	88,950	102,612	4,565	107,177	128,210	6,517	134,727
Syria	48,868	2,982	51,850	50,613	3,327	53,940	55,255	4,395	59,650
Jordan	23,866	2,969	26,835	23,916	3,197	27,113	25,493	4,550	30,043
Lebanon	15,036	3,121	18,157	16,207	3,640	19,847	18,656	4,713	23,369
Palestine	12,013	1,685	13,698	13,252	1,872	15,124	15,261	2,663	17,924
Iraq	11,911	1,458	13,369	10,881	1,463	12,344	11,183	1,964	13,147
Sudan	10,195	1,161	11,356	9,881	1,217	11,098	10,544	1,472	12,016
Yemen	9,688	326	10,014	9,431	344	9,775	9,730	507	10,237
Morocco	2,690	3,082	5,772	2,939	3,396	6,335	3,340	3,911	7,251
Somalia	2,921	236	3,157	2,554	243	2,797	2,414	392	2,806
Tunisia	1,089	436	1,525	1,520	629	2,149	1,906	891	2,797
Algeria	1,154	303	1,457	1,283	338	1,621	1,412	436	1,848
Other Arab countries	711	43	754	671	45	716	740	59	799
Total Arab countries	225,170	21,724	246,894	245,760	24,276	270,036	284,144	32,470	316,614

Source: Statistical Yearbook 2008, Ministry of Labour, UAE.

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Characteristics of data, definitions

The population taken into account is the private sector employees.
Arab countries are the Arab League member countries.

2. Institution which provides data

Ministry of Labour, UAE

3. Data availability

The data has been taken from Arab Labour Organisation’s Statistical Yearbook 2010, Chapter “Migration”
http://www.alolabor.org/final/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=110&view=view.download&catid=31&cid=95&lang=en
http://www.alolabor.org/final/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=110&view=viewcategory&catid=31&lang=ar

Last date of access: March 3, 2015.

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