Workers			Dependents
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
India	194,600	8,036	202,636	17,566	42,787	60,353
Egypt	7,412	1,364	8,776	4,141	7,099	11,240
Pakistan	40,265	375	40,640	2,929	6,501	9,430
Jordan	2,687	444	3,131	1,704	2,663	4,367
Bangladesh	97,115	381	97,496	1,080	2,572	3,652
Philippines	12,127	14,881	27,008	1,016	2,271	3,287
Yemen	2,299	22	2,321	894	1,454	2,348
Sri Lanka	4,040	2,033	6,073	446	1,276	1,722
United Kingdom	1,791	546	2,337	566	1,136	1,702
Syria	1,323	87	1,410	590	1,038	1,628
Others	25,855	6,445	32,300	3,034	6,419	9,453
Total	389,514	34,614	424,128	33,966	75,216	109,182

Source: Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA), Expatriate Management System (EMS)
ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data displays the stocks, at a given date, of expats visa holders, registered as workers or as family dependants (LMRA Law 19/2006) in EMS.
Non-Bahraini workers (for male, female and both sexes) are Expat visa applications (GCC workers are not included).
The scope of the system covers regular, temporary and investor work visas for foreign workers, their dependents, in the commercial sector, the government sector and the non-commercial, non-government sector.
It presently excludes domestic workers, and work visas for artists and certain other categories of workers in non-civilian organizations.
It distinguishes four types of visas for operational purposes: regular work visas for workers with 24-month validity; temporary work visas issued for workers with 6-month validity; investor work visas issued for investors investing up to BD 100,000;
and dependent visas issued for dependent members of eligible foreign workers.
The system tracks visa applications, renewals, mobility of workers between employers and from one occupation to another as well as notification of termination and runaway workers, and in general all operations of LMRA including inspection and offence management.
The system is updated continuously and linked with other labour-related databases of the Kingdom, including CIO, GDNPR, GOSI, PFC, CSB, Ministry of Labour (MoL), and Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MOIC).

Work Visa is a legal certificate to allow a foreign worker to enter the country for working purposes for a period of two years with the possibility of renewal.
Worker is a generic term that refers to an employed person in general, or to an employee, a self-employed, or a particular category of worker, such as full-time or part-time worker, depending on the context in which the term is used. Four major categories of workers in terms of their status in employment are employees, employers, own-account workers, and unpaid family workers.

2. Institution which provides data

Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA).

3. Data availability

Source: Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA), Kingdom of Bahrain, based on data from Bahrain Labour Market Indicators website http://www.lmra.bh/blmi.
The data can be retrieved from the data section of LMRA website. Tables are updated on a quarterly basis and are available in PDF and in Excel formats.

Date of access: October 2015