11.4K expats work in Egypt's private sector: CAPMAS report

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 those is 11,404 with males composing 85.6% and females making up 14.4%. There is a decrease of 23.7% compared to 2019 because of the circumstances imposed by COVID-19 pandemic. 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%). Then come Europeans with 23.5%, mainly from the United Kingdom (31.6%), and Italy (13.3%). As for Arab countries, the figure is 22.5 percent with Syrians and Palestinians being 22.5% and 15.6%, respectively.

The figures for the other nationalities are 7.8% Americans, 24.4% Canadians, 2.2% non-Arab Africans, and 1.1% from Oceanic countries.   

The sectors they work in are manufacturing (33.3%), creative economy (16.1%), petroleum and mining (11.9%), and education (11.4%).