UAE: Foreign labourers employed in the private sector and registered with the Ministry of Labour by nationality group / selected countries of citizenship and sex (2005-2007)

	2005			2006			2007
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Arab countries	225,169	21,724	246,893	245,760	24,276	270,036	284,144	32,470	316,614
India	1,123,418	28,054	1,151,472	1,267,843	31,560	1,299,403	1,483,835	39,637	1,523,472
Pakistan	365,439	2,423	367,862	409,034	2,705	411,739	483,130	3,479	486,609
Bangladesh	202,416	1,201	203,617	261,985	1,248	263,233	375,697	1,520	377,217
Philippines	41,641	34,093	75,734	54,914	45,083	99,997	74,654	61,074	135,728
Nepal	52,587	485,421	538,008	64,006	549	64,555	80,240	822	81,062
Sri Lanka	32,547	8,778	41,325	33,510	8,006	41,516	35,999	7,709	43,708
Afghanistan	19,840	35	19,875	22,186	33	22,219	27,215	39	27,254
Iran	17,791	717	18,508	16,370	857	17,227	17,093	1,359	18,452
Other Asian countries	17,114	6,615	23,729	24,299	7,114	31,413	38,555	8,470	47,025
Africa	5,379	2,407	7,786	6,598	3,022	9,620	8,121	4,233	12,354
Europe	18,356	6,713	25,069	19,790	7,694	27,484	23,286	9,272	32,558
America	4,706	1,142	5,848	5,320	1,391	6,711	6,102	1,916	8,018
Oceania	1,176	389	1,565	1,562	544	2,106	2,090	861	2,951
Non stated	80	5	85	86	4	90	0	0	0
Total	2,127,659	114,717	2,242,376	2,433,263	134,086	2,567,349	2,940,161	172,861	3,113,022

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.

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.