Five hundred and forty-nine migrant Nepali workers died in Gulf countries in 2014. According to the data made available by the Nepali embassies in the Gulf countries, 549 Nepali migrants, including 20 women, died in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain and Oman last year. The cause of their deaths were attributed to, among others, road accidents, workplace accidents and the natural causes. The number of Nepali migrants' death decreased in 2014, compared to over 600 deaths reported in the previous year. Saudi Arabia saw the most number of Nepali migrants' death last year. As many as 249 Nepali workers died there.
It is estimated that 1.5 million Nepalis are working in the Gulf countries.Sixty percent of Nepalese migrants are employed in construction and domestic work in Arab Gulf countries, where — under the employment-sponsorship system called “kafala” in Arabic — they are wholly dependent on their employers and vulnerable to labor and immigration abuses.
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