GCC: National and foreign national populations by aggregated age groups in GCC countries (national statistics, 2005-2015)
age | Nationals | Foreign nationals | Total population | % foreign nationals | |||||
Country | date/ period | group | numbers | % | numbers | % | numbers | % | in each age group |
Bahrain (1) | Mid-2014 | 0-14 | 201,455 | 32 | 68,132 | 10 | 269,587 | 21 | 25 |
15-64 | 402,778 | 64 | 604,588 | 88 | 1,007,366 | 77 | 60 | ||
65+ | 26,511 | 4 | 11,098 | 2 | 37,609 | 3 | 30 | ||
Kuwait (2) | December 2015 | 0-14 | 473,744 | 36 | 399,723 | 14 | 873,467 | 21 | 46 |
15-64 | 784,803 | 60 | 2,493,384 | 85 | 3,278,187 | 77 | 76 | ||
65+ | 49,058 | 4 | 38,294 | 1 | 87,352 | 2 | 44 | ||
Oman(3) | Mid-2015 | 0-14 | 837,655 | 36 | 90,959 | 5 | 928,614 | 22 | 10 |
15-64 | 1,406,430 | 60 | 1,715,721 | 95 | 3,122,151 | 75 | 55 | ||
65+ | 100,861 | 4 | 7,476 | 0 | 108,337 | 3 | 7 | ||
Qatar (4) | April 2010 | 0-14 | 96,811 | 40 | 135,773 | 9 | 232,584 | 14 | 58 |
15-64 | 138,915 | 57 | 1,314,119 | 90 | 1,453,034 | 86 | 90 | ||
65+ | 7,347 | 3 | 6,471 | 0 | 13,818 | 1 | 47 | ||
Saudi Arabia (5) | April 2010 | 0-14 | 5,550,117 | 30 | 1,638,196 | 19 | 7,188,313 | 26 | 23 |
15-64 | 12,629,476 | 67 | 6,739,636 | 80 | 19,369,112 | 71 | 35 | ||
65+ | 596,917 | 3 | 81,814 | 1 | 678,731 | 2 | 12 | ||
United Arab Emirates (6) | December 2005 | 0-14 | 313,872 | 38 | 486,699 | 15 | 800,571 | 20 | 61 |
15-64 | 488,592 | 59 | 2,780,314 | 85 | 3,268,906 | 80 | 85 | ||
65+ | 21,708 | 3 | 13,919 | 0 | 35,627 | 1 | 39 | ||
GCC Total* | 0-14 | 7,473,654 | 31 | 2,819,482 | 15 | 10,293,136 | 24 | 27 | |
15-64 | 15,850,994 | 66 | 15,647,762 | 84 | 31,498,756 | 74 | 50 | ||
65+ | 802,402 | 3 | 159,072 | 1 | 961,474 | 2 | 17 |
Sources: national institutes of statistics, latest year or period available as of 20 April 2016.
* 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.
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), Census 2010; http://gulfmigration.eu/population-aged-15-years-and-above-by-sex-10-years-age-groups-and-nationality-qatari-non-qatari-and-total-population-by-sex-and-5-years-age-groups-2010/
(5) Saudi Arabia Central Department for Statistics and Information (CDSI), Census 2010
(6) UAE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Census 2005.
Date of access: 20 April 2016
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