The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Sunday 1 November 2026 that the number of foreign workers in Egypt fell to 21,973 in 2025, compared with 23,683 in 2024, a decrease of 7.2%, according to the annual bulletin on foreign workers in the government, public, public business and private sectors.
A total of 21,462 foreign workers are employed in the private sector, compared with 511 in the government, public and public business sectors. Workers from European countries came first with 10,260, or 46.7%, followed by workers from non-Arab Asian countries with 6,801, or 31%, while workers from Oceania numbered 122, or 0.6%.
By occupation, 7,386 foreign workers held senior official and manager posts, or 33.6%, 5,435 held specialist posts, or 24.7%, and 3,893 worked in crafts and related trades, or 17.7%. In the government and public sectors, specialists made up 68.3% of foreign workers, at 349 workers.
In the private sector, senior officials and managers numbered 7,284, or 33.9%, specialists 5,086, or 23.7%, and craft workers 3,882, or 18.1%, according to the agency’s data.
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