Work			With Family			Study Training			Medical Treatment			Marriage			Tourism			Business Mission			Other			Total
	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total
GCC	1,071	144	1,215	911	1,269	2,180	330	148	478	4	3	7	115	605	720	160	74	234	21	14	35	1,024	930	1,954	3,636	3,187	6,823
Other Arabs	7,437	943	8,380	2,954	5,063	8,017	114	68	182	5	5	10	38	1,160	1,198	20	18	38	6	4	10	1,124	1,091	2,215	11,698	8,352	20,050
Asian	132,049	28,066	160,115	10,307	22,355	32,662	170	142	312	21	11	32	51	1,695	1,746	48	91	139	287	19	306	5,410	4,904	10,314	148,343	57,283	205,626
African	249	2,325	2,574	74	201	275	0	1	1	1	1	2	0	29	29	2	2	4	0	2	2	16	21	37	342	2,582	2,924
European	2,001	960	2,961	665	1,606	2,271	10	20	30	1	1	2	6	228	234	8	8	16	2	6	8	140	126	266	2,833	2,955	5,788
North American	1,533	579	2,112	303	591	894	39	30	69	0	0	0	4	26	30	3	2	5	5	0	5	37	43	80	1,924	1,271	3,195
South American	28	13	41	4	14	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	4	35	35	70
Oceanian	131	97	228	72	130	202	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	11	10	21	215	246	461
Total	144,499	33,127	177,626	15,290	31,229	46,519	664	409	1,073	32	21	53	214	3,757	3,971	242	196	438	321	45	366	7,764	7,127	14,891	169,026	75,911	244,937

Source: Central Informatics Organization (CIO)

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

This table shows the non-Bahraini residences by nationality group, sex and reason of residence in the census of 1991.

census year	reference period	implementing institution	implementation method		population covered
1981	November 16	Ministry of Finance Statistics Department	field interviews	de jure, de facto	all individuals (nationals and non-nationals): 1- present within the country’s borders during time of reference; 2- residing in Bahrain irrespective of where are they at census times
1991	April 6	Central Informatics Organisation (CIO)	field interviews
2001	April 7		field interviews; characteristics of population in collective households (among which labour camps) was obtained from sponsors
2010	April 27		based on administrative records

Nationality of the person is defined by the passport used to enter the country. A Non-Bahrainis is considered as such depending on the passport used to enter the country (or obtain the visa).

Note that some of the sub-totals on the CIO table do not match those as they appear in this table. The figures of the males and females are considered fixed and added accordingly.

2. Institution which provides data

Central Informatics Organization, known prior to 2001 as the “Central Statistics Organisation” under the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs.

3. Data availability

Figures and results reported here are available on the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) website: (http://www.cio.gov.bh)
CIO figures and results are often reported in tables in both PDF and Excel formats.
The 2001 data for this table can be found: (http://www.cio.gov.bh/cio_ara/English/Publications/Statistical%20Abstract/ABS2008/Ch2/31B.pdf).
They can also be found in the Statistical Abstracts of 2002 under the Population section.

Date of access: August 2014

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