445,000 Egyptians work in Kuwait’s private sector: minister

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Barrak al-Sabeeh said that 445,000 Egyptians work in the Kuwaiti private sector out of a total number of 697,411 employees.

Answering a parliamentarian question directed to her by a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, Sabeeh said that the Indian community tops the list of employees working in the private sector as there are 560,000 Indians.

She said that there are 174,000 Bangladeshis working in the Kuwaiti private sector, 81,000 Pakistanis, and 76,000 Philippians, adding that that number of Kuwaitis in the sector is 70,000.

Source: MENA