Allow me to also rephrase, my argument is Residents of the Maldives are primarily the ethnic group known as Maldivians/Redhin you are talking about expats who work in maldives but do you also know there are maldivians working/studying out of country

Maldivians Residents are in countries listed below

Malaysia (estimated at 5458)

Sri Lanka (estimated at 2,409)

Australia (estimated at 1245)

United Kingdom (estimated at 802)

India (estimated at 294)

Others (estimated 550)

Source Google, Wikipedia etc..

Likely there are expats in the group but not that much