CAIRO – 15 July 2021: The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) released Thursday the annual report on foreigners working in the private sector in Egypt for the year 2020. The number of foreigners who began working in Egypt for the first time is 4,202 being 36.8% of expats working in Egypt's private sector. Non-Arab Asians are the largest group with 42.2%, majorly from Bangladesh (26.1% of that group), and India (24.8%). As for Arab countries, the figure is 22.5 percent with Syrians and Palestinians being 22.5% and 15.6%, respectively. The sectors they work in are manufacturing (33.3%), creative economy (16.1%), petroleum and mining (11.9%), and education (11.4%).
