UAE: Arab foreign labourers employed in the private sector and registered with the Ministry of Labour by country of citizenship and sex (2005-2007)
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”
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Last date of access: March 3, 2015.