Around 1.15 million expats in Kuwait’s private sector

By IANS,

Dubai : Around 1.15 million expatriates worked in Kuwait’s private sector till June this year, according to new figures.

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The figures, released by Kuwait’s central census department, showed that males made up 93.5 percent of these expatriate workers, according to the state-run Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).

The report, however, did not give a break-up of the nationalities of these workers.

According to the census figures, around 67.7 percent of the expatriates got salaries lower than 180 Kuwaiti dinars ($673).

Indians formed a vast majority of Kuwait’s expatriate population with 550,000 Indians in the Gulf city-state.