Number of Indian expats in Oman goes down

There has been a 0.2 per cent drop in the number of Indian expatriate workers in Oman bringing their number in the country by the end of April 2013 to 607,556 down from 608,635 in March, according to a report.
This was followed by 462,725 Bangladeshi and 222,880 Pakistani workers, according to Oman's National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
The number of Sri Lankan workers stood at 12,431, a Times of Oman report said.
There was a 4.1 per cent rise in Ethiopian workers, where 38,915 people were registered with the Directorate General of Civil Status in April while the number in March stood at 37,394, according to the report.

The NCSI report also observed there were 1,488,116 expatriate workers in the country, of which 1,328,453 workers were male and 159,663 were female at the end of April 2013.
The report also showed that 53,466 expatriate workers are employed in the government sector, while 1,220,579 workers are employed in the private sector in Oman.

There was also a 1.3 per cent rise in Bangladeshi workers in April 2013 compared to the figure in March 2013.
But at the end of April 2013, the number of Bangladeshi workers stood at 462,725, whereas until the end of March, they had stood at 456,800.

Around 5,000 to 10,000 Bangladeshi workers are arriving every month - a trend that started last year and is possibly the largest annual migration of Bangladeshi workers into the Sultanate ever since they started looking for jobs in this part of the world.