Arab News, Saturday, Apr 3, 2021 | Shaaban 20, 1442
Kuwaitization of public sector reaches 77% in 2020
Kuwait:
Kuwaitization of the public sector reached almost 77% last year as government
employment grew to 420,800, up 11.4 percent since 2016, Al Anba paper reported
citing the Central Statistical Bureau.
Ministries and government departments employed 334,000 people as of the end of
June, 2020, of which 77.5 percent were Kuwaiti, the data showed. Public agencies
and institutions employed 38,400, of whom 86.5 percent were Kuwaiti. Bodies and
institutions with independent budgets employed 19,600 workers, of whom 59.4
percent were Kuwaiti.
Kuwait Airways employed 6,915 staff, 35.2 percent of whom were nationals.
Employment in the 16 fully state-owned companies was 28,300, 68.3 percent of
them Kuwaiti. About three quarters of them work in the oil sector.
The biggest share of non-Kuwaiti workers in the public sector were from non-GCC
Arab countries (42.6 percent), followed by Asian countries (38.7 percent) and
GCC nations (7.4 percent).