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Number of Egyptian expats in Kuwait rises by 5.8%


Sun 26 Aug 2018 | 01:08 PM
Ahmed Yasser

CAIRO, Aug 26 (SEE) – Number of Egyptian expats in Kuwait rose by 5.8 % during the first quarter of 2018, reaching 475,000 workers, a report on the foreign workforce in Kuwait revealed on Saturday.

 

The number of Egyptian expats around the world has reached  9.5 million, with 6 million working in Arab states, according to statistics provided by CAPMAS last year.

 

The Kuwaiti report said: "The number of Indian and Egyptian workers in Kuwait increased by 11.8 percent, with India ranking first with 577,613 workers, followed by Egypt."