Islamabad: Over 9 million Pakistanis have migrated in the past 45 years, with close to one million leaving Pakistan in search of better jobs in 2015 alone, a report said.
According to a report in Express Tribune, since 1971 over 9 millions Pakistanis have migrated through the Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment. This number peaked in 2015 when 9,46,571 Pakistanis moved to other countries, it said, adding that over 2.32 million Pakistanis have left the country for work since 2013.
Pakistan has faced continued migration of its workforce in search of better work opportunities in the past year. Of them, six per cent proceeded to Gulf Cooperation Council countries, about one per cent moved to the European Union and other developed countries and three per cent to Malaysia, Libya, South Korea etc.
The report did not give details of where the rest headed to.
Federal Secretary for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Khizar Hayat Khan pointed out how Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa made up just 12 per cent of Pakistan's entire population at home, but it comprises 26 per cent of Pakistanis working abroad.
Similarly, as many as 0.5 million people hailing from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are working abroad.
(With inputs from PTI)
