Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in Saudi Arabia ar, الهنود في السعودية, translit=al-Hunūd fī as-Saʿūdīyah, lit=) are the largest community of expatriates in the country, most of them coming from the states of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . I ...

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

, Maharashtra,

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and 3 ...

and most recently,

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

and

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

Overview

Indians as migrant workers first began to arrive in modern-day

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in relatively small number from the

British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was him ...

soon after the discovery of oil in 1938, but had their migration skyrocketed exponentially after the 1973 energy crisis and subsequent oil boom. However, migration to Saudi Arabia dropped dramatically after reaching its peak in 2014 due to the introduction of Nitaqat scheme in 2011, acceleration of

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by early 2016 and the launch of Saudi Vision 2030.

History

India and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to manage and organize the recruitment of domestic workers in January 2014. Between then and April 2016, 500,000 Indians moved to Saudi Arabia for employment. The agreement includes a provision which stipulates that sponsors must pay a guarantee of US $2,500 for each Indian worker they recruit.

Demographics

The following table shows the estimated population of Indians in Saudi Arabia since 1975.

Education

Indian curriculum schools in Saudi Arabia include:

Dammam

* International Indian School, Dammam

Riyadh

* International Indian School, Riyadh * New Middle East International School, Riyadh * International Indian Public School, Riyadh * Al-Yasmin International School,

Riyadh Riyadh (, ar, الرياض, 'ar-Riyāḍ, lit.: 'The Gardens' Najdi pronunciation: ), formerly known as Hajr al-Yamamah, is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of th ...

Al Alia International Indian School Al-Alia International Indian School (AAIIS) () is a K–12 Single-sex education, gender-isolated English medium, English-medium Community education, community-based international school, private foreign school in the Al Malazz, Riyadh, al-Malazz n ...

Yara International School Yara International School (YIS) (), simply sometimes Yara (), is a K–12 Single-sex education, gender-isolated English-medium Multicultural education, multicultural international school in the Al Dirah, Riyadh, Deerah district of Riyadh, Saudi ...

Jeddah

* Talal International School, Jeddah *

International Indian School Jeddah The International Indian School Jeddah, ( ar, المدرسة الهندية العالميه بجدة; hi, अंतर्राष्ट्रीय भारतीय विद्यालय जेद्दा) formerly known as the Embassy o ...

Buraidah

* International Indian School Buraidah

Jubail

* International Indian School, Al-Jubail

Notable Indian Saudi Arabians

* Abdulbasit Hindi, Saudi Arabian footballer of distant Indian origin *Awaiz Patni, Group CFO - Bugshan Investment

References

Ethnic groups in Saudi Arabia

India–Saudi Arabia relations Indian diaspora Ethnic groups in the Middle East {{Saudi Arabia-stub