Dubai: According to recent statistics issued by the Central Administration of Statistics, more than 27,200 immigrant workers have left Kuwait’s local labour market in three months.

And the statistics also showed that the number of foreign workers in the market was 1,479,545 last December, and it has declined by 1,452,344 three months later, as per the reports.

Despite the heavy downfall in the number of immigrants, the Egyptian community is still maintaining the top spot in the local labour market, followed by Indians, Bangladeshis in the third place, then Pakistan in the fourth place, Filipinos, Syrians, Nepalese, Jordanians and Iranians.

According to reports in which, Kuwait has been named the worst expat destination for the seventh time in eight years, according to the Expat Insider survey (59th out of 59 countries).

According to the Expat Insider survey, Kuwait ranks 59th in the Quality of Life Index, with particularly poor results in the Leisure Options, Personal Happiness, and Travel and Transportation subcategories (59th for all).

Kuwait is also the worst immigration destination worldwide in the Ease of Settling (59th), with 46 percent of immigrants not feeling at home, while 45 percent find it challenging to settle down in the country.

Among the 168,000 immigrants forced to leave Kuwait in February were 60,400 domestic workers and 107,900 migrant workers in the private and public sectors. As a result, the number of domestic workers in Kuwait has decreased by 9%.

48,000 male and female Indian workers have left the labour market as their numbers dropped from 499,400 to 451,380, an overall reduction of about 10 per cent.

Not only Indian workers from Egypt, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines, Pakistan, but Jordan and Iran also left the labour market.

On the one hand, where emigrants are leaving Kuwait, there has been an expansion in the jobs for the citizens of the country. 17,511 people of Kuwait have got jobs.