Factsheets

According to the data from the Department of Foreign Employment, over 760,000 labour permits were issued for UAE-bound Nepali workers in the last two and a half decades. The number of labour permits issued for ‘new entry’ to the UAE surged from a little over 100 in 1993/94 to ov...

According to data obtained from the Department of Foreign Employment, over 40,000 Nepali workers went to South Korea for work in just over a decade between 2006/07 and 2016/17. Although there are some fluctuations, the annual flow of Nepali workers to South Korea has remained above ...

The Gulf countries in general, and Saudi Arabia in particular, have emerged as the prime destination for Nepali migrants. Although there is no record of the first arrival of Nepali migrants in Saudi Arabia, it can be presumed from available data that Nepalis migrated to Saudi Arabia...

According to the data made available by the Department of Foreign Employment, a total of 1,388,106labour permits were issued for Qatar from the years 1993/9419 through 2017/18. More than 100,000 labour permits have been issued for Qatar each year since 2010/11, with the exception...

It is difficult to determine the exact date of Nepali workers’ first migration to Oman. It can be assumed from available data that Nepali workers had started migrating to Oman since the early 1990s. The number of Nepalis in Oman was a little over 17,000 in 2018. The share of Nepal...

A total of USD 6 billion is remitted out of Malaysia every year, and Nepal receives a little less than USD 200 million or 3 per cent of the total remittances sent out of Malaysia. The amounts remitted are, of course, only calculated estimates as there is no accounting of the true vo...

As per the data from the Department of Foreign Employment, over 170,000 labour permits have beenissued for Kuwait in the last two and a half decades (Table 3). The highest number (24,575) were issued in 2011/12, with women making a little more than half of the total migrant worke...

According to the data obtained from Department of Foreign Employment, nearly 65,000 labour permits were issued to Nepali workers going to Bahrain in the last two and a half decades, from 1993/94 through 2017/18. The number of labour permits issued for Bahrain increased from a scanty...