Nationals		Foreign nationals		Total population
Country	date/ period	sex	numbers	men per 100 women	numbers	men per 100 women	numbers	men per 100 women
Bahrain (1)	Mid-2014	males	217,760	103	450,788	273	668,548	178
		females	211,529		164,898		376,427
Kuwait (2)	December 2015	males	400,622	92	1,759,012	228	2,159,634	179
		females	433,239		772,666		1,205,905
Oman(3)	Mid-2015	males	757,980	101	1,453,720	539	2,211,700	217
		females	749,311		269,477		1,018,788
Qatar (4)	September 2015	males	93,886	96	1,580,985	458	1,674,871	378
		females	97,779		344,953		442,732
Saudi Arabia (5)	November 2015	males	6,930,631	98	6,136,833	257	13,067,464	138
		females	7,065,469		2,384,591		9,450,060
United Arab Emirates* (6)	mid-2010	males	293,981	100	5,076,366	420	5,370,347	357
		females	293,571		1,209,178		1,502,749
GCC Total**		males	8,694,860	98	16,457,704	320	25,152,564	180
		females	8,850,898		5,145,763		13,996,661

Sources: national institutes of statistics, latest year or period available as of 20 April 2016.
* Our estimates of non-nationals aged 15 and above for 2010.
** Total provides the sum of population numbers at different dates. It is not exactly the total population at any of these dates.

1- Definition:
Non-nationals are:
1- persons bearing nationality of a foreign State other than the GCC State of residence, or bearing no proof of nationality from any given state (stateless persons and holders of refugee status and travel document in a third country) ;
2- Holders of residence permit residing in the given GCC country at date of census, as per definition of residence used in each of the countries.

Figures for Bahrain and the UAE are estimates.

2- Sources of data:
(1) Bahrain Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), CIO’s website, “Statistics” and “Population” sections http://www.data.gov.bh/en/ResourceCenter
(2) Kuwait Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), “Population” Bulletin 2015, 31 December 2015
(3) National Centre for Statistical Information (NCSI), Bulletin of Population Statistics n°5, 2015
(4) Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Labor Force Survey 2015, Third Quarter (July-September 2015).
(5) Saudi Arabia Central Department for Statistics and Information (CDSI), Labour Force Survey 2015 (Round 2)
(6) UAE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), our estimates from: http://www.uaestatistics.gov.ae/EnglishHome/ReportDetailsEnglish/tabid/121/Default.aspx?ItemId=1914&PTID=104&MenuId=1

Date of access: 20 April 2016

 

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