Workers work at a construction site in Port City Colombo， Sri Lanka， March 27， 2024. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
企业-上家隆禽蛋有限公司COLOMBO， April 5 (Xinhua) -- Around 75，000 Sri Lankans have left their country for overseas jobs in the first three months of 2024， 首页-诚加州锁具有限公司 the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) said Thursday.
The SLBFE said 74， 宁波纽斯达工艺品有限公司499 Sri Lankan workers have left the South Asian country to seek jobs abroad， 首页-凯宏地板有限公司树苗 with 46 percent of them being women.
This is a slight drop from the figure recorded for the first quarter in 2023， 固原市利旺蚕丝有限公司 at 76，首页-科理资有限公司025 people， said the bureau.
The SLBFE said that in recent months， the Sri Lankan workers mostly tried to find jobs in countries like South Korea， Israel and Japan.
Sri Lankan migrant workers have sent back home 963.8 million U.S. dollars in remittances in the first two months of 2024树苗， becoming the top foreign exchange earner for the country during the cited period. ■