Indians become largest expatriate community

T TV Tuesday 11/December/2018 16:32 PM
By: Times News Service

Indians have overtaken Bangladeshis to become the largest expatriate community in Oman, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information.
There are 664,227 Indians living and working in the Sultanate, as compared to 663,618 Bangladeshis, as of October 2018.
This is in comparison to 688,226 Indians who resided in Oman last December, and 692,164 Bangladeshis.
Among the Indian population, 48,115 are female, while the vast majority – 616,112 – are male.
The same is true for the Bangladeshi workforce, of whom only 28,335 are female and 635,283 are male.