275,000 Kuwaitis working in government sector

Civil Service Commission (CSC) statistics for the first quarter of 2019 showed that the total number of citizens working in government bodies until the beginning of April was 275,000 (77 percent of the total manpower), while the total number of government employees belonging to other nationalities was 78,000 (21.8 percent of the total manpower).

Statistic also showed that 1.2 percent of the manpower belonged to GCC states, with a majority of around 4,000 from Saudi Arabia, 232 from Qatar, 108 from Oman, 106 from Bahrain and only 17
from the UAE.