{
  "pillarKey": "laborMigration",
  "title": "Labor Migration Corridors",
  "version": "5edde9588e98",
  "contentHash": "5edde9588e98a6d187f43fa121d35d682a49c6b97c775532022935a3e78bfcc5",
  "snapshotDate": "2026-10-18",
  "status": "partially-verified",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-08-16",
  "publisher": "American Bangladesh Foundation",
  "note": "Immutable snapshot. contentHash is SHA-256 over the key-sorted JSON of `content`. Cite the original publisher for any figure you reuse.",
  "content": {
    "key": "laborMigration",
    "rows": [
      {
        "country": "Saudi Arabia",
        "workers2024": 628564,
        "region": "Gulf",
        "color": "hsl(42, 80%, 55%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Malaysia",
        "workers2024": 93000,
        "region": "SE Asia",
        "color": "hsl(200, 60%, 45%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Qatar",
        "workers2024": 74000,
        "region": "Gulf",
        "color": "hsl(42, 70%, 45%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Singapore",
        "workers2024": 56000,
        "region": "SE Asia",
        "color": "hsl(180, 40%, 40%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "UAE",
        "workers2024": 47000,
        "region": "Gulf",
        "color": "hsl(42, 60%, 55%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Kuwait",
        "workers2024": 33000,
        "region": "Gulf",
        "color": "hsl(42, 80%, 50%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Jordan",
        "workers2024": 15330,
        "region": "Other",
        "color": "hsl(215, 16%, 47%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Bahrain",
        "workers2024": 11000,
        "region": "Gulf",
        "color": "hsl(42, 55%, 42%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Italy",
        "workers2024": 7000,
        "region": "Other",
        "color": "hsl(215, 20%, 55%)"
      },
      {
        "country": "Oman",
        "workers2024": 358,
        "region": "Gulf",
        "color": "hsl(42, 65%, 48%)"
      }
    ],
    "highlights": [
      {
        "label": "Total Deployed 2024",
        "value": "1.01M",
        "delta": "Workers abroad"
      },
      {
        "label": "Saudi Share",
        "value": "62%",
        "delta": "Of total"
      },
      {
        "label": "GCC Total",
        "value": "~78%",
        "delta": "Gulf dependency"
      }
    ],
    "claims": [],
    "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.old.bmet.gov.bd/BMET/stattisticalDataAction",
    "additionalSources": [
      {
        "name": "World Bank KNOMAD",
        "url": "https://www.knomad.org"
      }
    ],
    "verification": {
      "registryStatus": "Partially Verified",
      "sourceVerified": false,
      "unverifiedFields": [
        "deploymentData.Bahrain",
        "deploymentData.Italy",
        "corridorCostData.SaudiArabia",
        "corridorCostData.Kuwait",
        "corridorCostData.Qatar",
        "corridorCostData.UK"
      ],
      "knownGaps": [
        "Destination country breakdown incomplete for 2025",
        "Return migration data not systematically collected",
        "2 of 10 destination-country deployment figures (Bahrain, Italy) and 4 of 7 remittance-corridor cost figures remain unconfirmed against the primary BMET/World Bank download (see in-code VERIFY markers in laborMigrationData.ts). Qatar, Singapore, UAE and Kuwait were corroborated against BMET's 2024 breakdown in the 2026-08 pass; Jordan and Oman were corrected there after being found materially wrong",
        "BMET published a provisional 2024 total of 997,008 and later revised it to 1,011,856; the destination breakdown is corroborated to the nearest thousand against the provisional release while the total and Saudi Arabia row use the revised figures"
      ]
    }
  }
}