Eighty-four per cent of Bahrain’s private sector workforce is expatriate, it has emerged.

Of the 556,086 people working in the private sector by the end of the second quarter, 466,524 were foreign employees.

Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan revealed the figures to parliament in a written response, adding the expatriate workforce was growing five per cent annually.

He said only 89,592 Bahrainis were working in the private sector, with an annual growth rate of 3 per cent.

For further details visit http://www.gdnonline.com