RISING TRENDS IN INDIAN LABOUR MIGRATION TO GCC COUNTRIES: A TIME-SERIES PERSPECTIVE


Gokila G
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore
Abstract
Globalisation around the world has allowed the labour movement between the countries. International migration i.e. migration between one country to another country has become a common phenomenon. India has seen a significant number of people migrating to different regions across the world under different circumstances. The upward trend in labour migration to the Gulf countries started when large-scale development activities took place due to an increase in oil prices in the 1970s. The lack of employment opportunities, poverty, low wages and poor standard of living in India caused many Indians to migrate to Gulf countries to gain economic benefits. The six countries like Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (SA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are grouped and it known as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). There is a rapid growth rate of 79 percent in the Indian migrants who were migrated to GCC countries over the two decades. India was the leading country of origin of international migrants with 17.5 million globally. This study is based on the international migrant’s study done on the Panel data for five years interval from 1990 to 2020. It also analyses the total number of males and females migrating to Gulf countries. We used the secondary data from the publications of the United Nations Organizations (Department of Economic and Social Affairs). In this paper we used Compound Annual Growth Rate and Compound Growth Rate for time series analysis, to interpret and the result showed that there is a rapid increase in migration of people to Saudi Arabia from India compared to the other Gulf countries.
Keywords: Migrant labour, Gulf countries, GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), Male and Female
Journal Name :
EPRA International Journal of Research & Development (IJRD)

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Published on : 2026-03-21

Vol : 11
Issue : 3
Month : March
Year : 2026
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