The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced that 9.5 million Egyptians live outside the country. Around 6.2 million expatriates live in Arab countries while 1.6 million are located in North and South America, 1.2 million are in Europe and 340,000 in Australia. Numbers of Egyptian expatriates have been on the rise since the Egyptian government began missions to Arab countries in 1930, to accomplish their development plans. According to CAPMA’s statistics, the main outlet for Egyptian migrants is Arab countries. Many of them reside in Saudi Arabia, that currently hosts 2.9 million workers, 1.6 million in Jordan, 765,000 in United Arab Emirates, 500,000 in Kuwait and 230,000 in Qatar.

Source: Egypt Independent October 01, 2017 10:41 UTC