This article seems to be conflating laborers dying during 7 years, and laborers dying while working on a few projects. Considering Saudi Arabia’s immigration s

This article seems to be conflating laborers dying during 7 years, and laborers dying while working on a few projects. Considering Saudi Arabia’s immigration system, or lack thereof, practically everyone who’s not a citizen is a foreign worker, and South Asians make up the lion share of the 10 million foreign workers. Are we looking at 21k dying out of a 6 million+ population over 7 years, or 21k dying out of a much smaller construction pool for a few projects? This same narrative was told about the Qatar World Cup, only for the “World Cup deaths” to actually be total cumulative foreign labor deaths. It took the wind out of the movement to get the Gulf countries to reform their treatment of foreign workers.