MUSCAT: Oman’s expat population continue to drop, according to the latest figures released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) on Saturday. 

Expats in Oman now make up 41.7 percent (1,936,830) of the country’s total population marking the lowest percentage since December 2019. By the end of 2019, there were 2,030,000 (42.5%) of expatriates in the country. 

Meanwhile, the Sultanate’s population touched 4,645,239 at the end of March 2020, which includes  2,708,419 Omanis, representing 58.3 per cent of the total population.

NCSI’s monthly bulletin of April 2020 indicated that 85.8 per cent of the total number of expatriates in the Sultanate work in the governmental, private and domestic sectors.

Their number at the end of the first quarter of 2020 amounted to 1,662,113 expatriates, including 53,332 people in the government sector, 1,321,753 people in the private sector, and 287,028 people in the domestic sector.

According to the bulletin, the total number of expatriate workers in the Sultanate fell by 6.4 per cent at the end of the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period of 2019.