An official source in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MSAL) told Al-Kuwaitiya newspaper on Dec 12 that there are 44,965 citizens and 1,202,862 expats working in the private sector, which means the total work force in the private sector is 1,247,816 workers.
The figures are worrying and the Cabinet and assembly must look at them carefully, particularly because the official numbers indicate that the number of citizens among the total population is no more than 31%. Kuwait now has only 1,100,000 citizens. What is really scary is that most citizens work in the public sector where their percentage has reached 90%. This is exactly the sector which is not productive. We are trying that Kuwaiti youth should be working in the private sector or the productive sectors in the country because the numbers published by MSAL show a low percentage of national labor in this sector, a mere 35% of the total workers.
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