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Saudi Arabia has one of the fastest growing populations in the world. [29] The majority of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia come from South Asia. [29] Although migrants constitute 33% of the total population, they represent 56.5% of the total number of employees and 89% of the employees active in the private sector. [29]
2,224 Indians are in jails in Saudi Arabia and 1,606 in the United Arab Emirates. [6] In May 2020, 1000 Bangladeshi labourers who were in prisons and detention camps in the Middle East were allowed to go home. Two weeks after that, 29,000 Bangladeshi workers were sent back to their homeland. [7]
There is a significant population of Anglo-Indians in Bangladesh. [54] Anglo-Indians have been present in Bangladesh since the colonial period. Their population decreased to 4,000 in 1947 during the Partition of India. Most of them migrated to the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In 1970, however, almost 9,000 ...
Malaysia has one of the world's largest overseas Indian and overseas Chinese populations. Most Indians migrated to Malaysia as plantation labourers under British rule. They are a significant minority ethnic group, making up 8% or 2,410,000 as 2017 of the Malaysian population. 85% of these people are Tamil-speaking.
More than two million are in Saudi Arabia. [46] The United Arab Emirates is home to 706,000. [47] Oman has about 680,242 Bangladeshis as of 2018. [48] There is a Bangladeshi school in the city of Muscat, in Oman, called Bangladesh School Muscat. [citation needed] Qatar has about 400,000 Bangladeshis as of 2019. [49]
Indian schoolboys taking part in the 94th Saudi National Day celebrations in Riyadh, 2024. Indians as migrant workers first began to arrive in modern-day Saudi Arabia in relatively small numbers from the British Raj soon after the discovery of oil in 1938, [5] but their migration numbers skyrocketed exponentially after the 1973 energy crisis and subsequent oil boom. [6]
Indians in the United Arab Emirates constitute the largest part of the population of the country. Over 3,860,000 Indian expats are estimated to be living in the United Arab Emirates, [1] with over 38% of the country's total population and the fourth highest number of overseas Indians in the world, after the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia. [2]
Splash is an Indian retail company based in Dubai and founded in Sharjah, It is part of the Landmark Group. [citation needed] Founded in 1993 as a single-brand store in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, Splash has grown to over 150 stores and 50 brand stores across 14 countries in India, the Middle East, Pakistan, Tanzania and Libya. [1]