Around 2.3 million expatriates were employed in the private sector, while 459,218 expatriates were in the public sector, as of the end of December 2018. These statistics from the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), also show that of the total number of expatriates employed in the public sector, Arabs accounted for 70,945 workers, most of them working in the ministries of education and health. Arab nationals also represent about 25 percent of the total workforce in the private sector, with one-third of them working in the construction field.
The PACI figures also revealed that 40,775 Asians were working in the public sector and 614,863 were employed in the private sector. While 535 Africans are recorded as working in the public sector, an additional 34,413 were employed in the private sector.
Meanwhile, there were 1,427 Europeans in public sector jobs and 9,152 in the private sector. Citizens of the United States numbered 941 in public sector and 9,520 in the private sector. In addition there were 99 public sector employees from Latin America and 793 in the private sector, as well as 70 Australians in the public sector and 650 in the private sector, at the end of last year.
