A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
The Maldives has recently been capturing global attention for its current situation with migrant workers, resulting in a lot of public concerns and demands. Out of the population amounting to 500,000 people in the nation, there are approximately 144,000 migrant workers with 44% of the workers undocumented. While the amount of migrant workers has been […]
The Maldives is an island nation of approximately 500,000 people. The latest statistics of census reveal that the Maldives consists as many as 144,000 Bangladeshis working in the country, with one-third of them amounting up to 63,000 having no valid documents or registration. This is a major amount among all the expatriate workers in the […]
Economic Minister Fayyaz Ismail has made a statement revealing that the government hopes to repatriate at least 20,000 undocumented expatriate migrants in the Maldives before the end of the year, 2020. The government evaluates that more than 70,000 illegal migrant workers reside in different areas of the Maldives from which 90% of the workers are […]
In the celebration of International Labour Day 2020, National Bureau of Statistics has revealed the statistics of the labour force in the Maldives. The total labour population of Maldives totals up to 151,706 with male employment in the majority with 70.3% male employment to population ratio. While female employment to population ratio is 39.8%. Even […]