27 percent of the total manpower in Kuwait are domestic workers

Domestic helpers form 27 percent of the total manpower in Kuwait, according to latest statistics from Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI).

PACI Statistics shows that out of total 2,672,428 manpower in Kuwait, 625,829 are domestic workers.

Furthermore, the statistics showed that Indians came first among the domestic helpers’ community with 45.9 percent; 287,421 of whom (78.6 percent) are males. The statistics also showed that Filipinos came second with 22 percent, of whom 99 percent are women.

Bangladeshis came third with 12.9 percent of the total domestic helpers’ population, of whom 98.8 are men. Sri Lankans came fourth with a total number of 60,930, of whom 7.7 percent are women. Nepalese only formed 2.6 percent of domestic helpers, and 90.3 of them are women. Meanwhile, Ethiopians came fifth with a total number of 167, 43, of whom 93.4 are women, while other African nationalities formed only 0.6 percent, whereas Indonesians formed 0.5 percent.