2010			2011			2012			2013
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Arab countries	104,366	166,920	271,286	108,396	174,775	283,171	113,266	184,336	297,602	121,894	196,944	318,838
Non-Arab Asian countries	49,031	100,350	149,381	51,523	104,023	155,546	53,859	108,412	162,271	56,241	112,888	169,129
Non-Arab African countries	598	1,201	1,799	623	1,284	1,907	651	1,296	1,947	620	1,324	1,944
Europe	1,426	2,914	4,340	1,461	2,983	4,444	1,547	3,064	4,611	1,584	3,135	4,719
North America	3,663	4,915	8,578	3,709	4,897	8,606	3,785	5,037	8,822	3,875	5,021	8,896
Central and South America	201	381	582	217	408	625	225	400	625	221	382	603
Australia and Oceania	306	482	788	319	491	810	332	490	822	319	493	812
Other	5	7	12	5	3	8	3	4	7	3	3	6
Total	159,596	277,170	436,766	166,253	288,864	455,117	173,668	303,039	476,707	184,757	320,190	504,947

Source: Ministry of Interior
ANNEXED NOTE

1. Definitions

Residency procedures do not apply to GCC nationals.
The bidoun, a stateless population, are not included in the residency documents holders.
Data presented in the table are stock data: all the non-national residents holding a residence permit on December 31st, the given year. The table excludes the Bedoon, the non-Kuwaiti GCC citizens and those in irregular situation.

Totals for the year 2012 presented here differ slightly from totals in other tables pertaining to this year published in the database.

2. Institution which provides data

Central Statistical Bureau (CSB), Ministry of Planning.

3. Period of data coverage

December 31st, given years.

4. Data availability

The present data is taken from the report “Migration Statistics 2013”, published by the CSB.
The report processes Ministry of Interior’s (Directorate of Migration’s) raw figures of permits granted to foreign residents by type/ purpose of permit, sex and regional origin of holder, for the years 2010 to 2013.
The report (in Arabic, PDF format with Excel tables) is available on CSB’s website (Population Statistics, then Migration Statistics)
http://www.csb.gov.kw/Socan_Statistic.aspx?ID=56

Date of access: May 2015.

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