Muscat: Sultanate of Oman’s expatriate population has been on the rise since October 2021, says National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

According to the NCSI population clock, on 1 October, 2021, there were 1,634,357 expatriates in Oman, having declined from 1.64 million in September and 1.68 in August 2021.

Since October 2021, however, the nation’s expatriate population has been steadily rising. The expat population rose from 1.63 million in October to 1.65 in November of 2021 and then climbed to 1.68 million in December last year.

At the start of the New Year, Oman’s expatriate population figures crossed the 1.7 million mark to reach 1,729,965, before rising to 1,753,264 on 1 February.

During the period from 1 October 2021, the country’s total population rose from 4,419,156 people to 4,562,995. The Omani population also increased from 2,784,799 to 2,809,731.

According to the NCSI’s Monthly Statistical Bulletin for January 2022, there were 1.131 million expatriates employed in the country’s private sector in December 2021, up from 1.108 million in November.

However, the number of expatriates employed in government dipped by 10 percent, from 38,073 public sector employees in November 2021, to 37,996 in December. In total, there are some 1.38 million expatriates employed in Oman.