There has been almost a 12% percent increase in the number of expatriates, according to the General Authority for Statistics (GAS) third quarter survey for this year.
There article below has quite a few numbers, but it surely is interesting.
The number of expatriates in the Kingdom reached 11.6 million by mid 2016. In 2015 there were 10.2 million expats in the Kingdom. A total of 1,419,905 expatriates from various parts of the world arrived in the Kingdom this year, according to GAS data. The number of female expatriates has increased by about 13.59 percent this year reaching 3,657,643 witnessing a rise of 497,256 over their number the previous year which was 3,160,387.
The number of expatriate men increased by 922,649 in 2016. Expatriate men at present stand at 8.3 million compared to their number in 2015 which was 7.8 million.
The number of Saudi men and women declined by 693,324 in 2016 reaching 20.7 million from 20.8 million in 2015.
Though the statistics are amazing, but wonder how expatriates population increased when so many companies have shut their operations and many went have left Saudi Arabia for their Native countries. And the most important question of all, how come Saudi population decreased?
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