Bahrain world’s favourite destination for expatriates

Bahrain, the world’s most popular expat destination, has defended its last year’s pole position and has again topped the Expat Insider ranking. The kingdom scored first place among both male and female respondents and generally did well across most topics, Expat Insider, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive surveys on life abroad, concluded.

The survey included 18,135 expats, representing 178 nationalities and living in 187 countries or territories, across the globe. Bahrain maintained its outstanding performance by topping the world in the “feeling at home” and “the ease of settling in” index, reflected by quotes from one Indian expat “I don’t feel like an expat. I feel at home.”

Bahrain achieved great results for friendliness (second out of 68) and finding friends (second). Many respondents in Bahrain gave their working hours (44 percent), job security (33 percent), or overall job satisfaction (39 percent) the best possible rating, pushing the Kingdom to the top of the Working Abroad Index.

Expats raising children in Bahrain are particularly happy with the quality of education (third in the survey), as well as the availability of childcare and education (ninth). No parent is dissatisfied with family life in general, and over nine in ten (95 percent) agree that the attitude towards families with children is generally friendly.