According to the Philippine envoy, Ambassador Ezzedin Tago, citing data from the Saudi Arabia Ministy of Interior, there are a total of 722,000 OFWs in the record as of 2014, and that number increased to 852,000 in 2015, an addition of 130,000 in a matter of one year.
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Saudi Arabia is still top OFW destination in the world.
POEA data show that for over 5 years, the highest number of OFWs was deployed in Saudi Arabia, followed by the United Arab Emirates. In 2014, most of the countries belonging to the top 10 destinations of OFWs were in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. - via Rappler.com (text and image)
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