Expat employees in Kuwait's public sector down 23% in one year

KUWAIT: The total number of expatriates working in the public sector has decreased one year since the policy of replacing foreign employees with citizens was launched, recent official statistics has shown.

The total number of expatriates working in state departments dropped from 82,061 in 2017 to 80,933 in 2018, ie 23.14 percent of the total manpower working for the government, according to statistics released by the Civil Service Commission (CSC); the state department responsible for employment in the public sector. Furthermore, the statistics show that CSC has terminated the contracts of 1,128 non-Kuwaitis in the 2017-2018 fiscal year.

Family members
Recent Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) statistics showed that an average Kuwaiti family includes seven members, while non-Kuwaiti families have an average of only 2.7 members per family.

Statistics also showed that the average birth rate among citizens is 24 per 1,000, while the average for expats is eight per 1,000. On the other hand, the death rate is 2.5 per 1,000 amongst Kuwaitis and 0.9 per 1,000 amongst non-Kuwaitis. Statistics showed that 63 percent of the expatriate population comprises of males, while expat females form only 37 percent.