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Total Workforce In Kuwait Has Increased By 66,000 Employees Of Both Genders By End Of 2018 - Statistics
The total workforce in Kuwait has increased by 66,000 employees of both genders by the end of 2018 including 8,562 citizens and 11,394 new domestic workers as well as 47,000 expatriate workers in the private sector, reports Al-Qabas daily.
According to official statistics, the number of expatriate workers in the private sector increased during the period from June to December 2018, and the number of expatriates working in the public sector reduced by 987 employees during the same period. The total number of expatriates working in both public and private sectors as well as domestic sector reached 2.38 million, 68 percent out of who work in the private sector, while 648,000 of them work in the domestic sector and 123,000 expatriates work in the public sector.
The number of Kuwaiti employees in the public sector increased by 7,867, and the number of Kuwaiti employees in the private sector increased by 695. The total number of Kuwaiti employees working in the private sector has reached 63,104 and those in the public sector are more than 335,000. Kuwaiti employees in both sectors constitute 17 percent of the total workforce in Kuwait.
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