MUSCAT : The number of expats living in Oman has fallen significantly in the last nine months, according to a data from the country’s National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
A total of 263,392 expat workers have left the country in the last nine months. According to the data, a total of 1,449,406 were working in the country till the end September 2020 compared to 1,712,798 at the end of 2019.
Data from the Oman NCSI also shows that 92,000 expats left Oman in the last three months alone. “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to many expats returning home,” said a top HR expert based in Muscat.
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