130,511 expats in Oman not registered

Muscat: As many as 130,511 expatriates are not registered according to official figures in the governorates of the Sultanate.
This was revealed in the latest report of the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
This was revealed in the latest report of the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
2.6% rise in population
The monthly report has from NCSI also revealed that Oman’s population has registered a growth of 2.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2016. At the end of April 2016, the 2.6 per cent rise compared to the same period last year, took the Sultanate’s population to 4,428,946.
Expat population at 45.5%
Expatriates constituted 45.5 percent of the total population The total number of expatriates at the end of April 2016 rose by 4.5 percent to hit 2,014,348 compared with 1,927,938 at the end of last December.