31.8 million workers in “Cooperation Countries”

Data issued by the statistical center of the Gulf Cooperation Council states showed that the total volume of manpower in the GCC states, according to the statistics of 2022, amounted to 31.8 million workers, constituting 54.2% of the total population, with 78.7% of males, and females 21.3%.

The volume of manpower from the citizens of the GCC states reached 5.6 million workers, which constitute 17.6% of the total workforce in the Cooperation Council, by male 60% and females of 40%, as the number of Gulf women working increased by 600 thousand operators since 2011.

The data indicates that the government sector is still the largest employee of the Gulf manpower, with a wide field of resettlement in the private sector, as the percentage of Gulf labor in the government sector reached 83.5% compared to 14.2% in the private sector.

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries have taken reinforced policies to localize the workforce, as well as priority to the young workforce, while enhancing economic diversification efforts and moving to environmentally friendly green jobs.

The Gulf Cooperation Council countries focus their efforts to prepare educated national cadres based on the fact that education is an essential pillar to achieve the goals of sustainable development, as the statistical center data of the “cooperation” countries indicate that the total students of public education in the GCC countries for the academic year (2021/2022) amounted to 9.3 million students with an annual growth rate of 6.6% compared to 2018.

Most students of public education in government sector institutions are based on 75%, and the total students in higher education institutions in the GCC countries in the academic year (2021/2022) reached two million students in 258 institutions, and that the GCC countries have achieved high levels of progress in the global arrangement index of universities.

The health field is also one of the important sectors in the countries of the Cooperation Council, where the center’s data indicates that the total number of family in the hospitals of the GCC states in 2022 reached about 121.2 thousand bed The beneficiaries of health services in the council countries 561.9 thousand beneficiaries.