Nationals
	Bahrain		Kuwait		Oman		Qatar		Saudi Arabia		UAE
	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females
Illiterate	6,259	17,993	N.A.	N.A.	57,509	122,365	1,810	5,773	391,890	1,145,244	N.A.	N.A.
Reads and writes	18,954	21,924			55,922	53,351	11,033	12,254	852,543	1,098,691
Primary	24,392	15,862			176,607	159,677	15,341	13,156	1,403,833	1,334,833
Preparatory/ Intermediate/vocational	43,903	35,723			127,247	99,576	17491	13368	1,603,136	1,310,071
Secondary	73,086	68,333			239,394	211,139	22,567	22,051	2,216,895	1,604,481
Post-Secondary/ Pre-Univ. Diploma	13,725	15,173			37,719	36,318	2,325	1,703	393,247	176,165
University	11,607	15,678			44,878	47,378	15,227	20,126	842,661	838,127
Master degree/ Higher Diploma	2,259	1,929			6,688	2,366			49,330	14,128
Ph.D	421	129			1,337	454			21,619	5,644
Not Stated/other	37	78			11	10	25	29
Total	194,643	192,822			747,312	732,634	85,819	88,460	7,775,154	7,527,384

 

	Foreign nationals
	Bahrain		Kuwait		Oman		Qatar		Saudi Arabia		UAE
	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females
Illiterate	18,508	10,952	N.A.	N.A.	61,962	20,796	38,883	8,112	631,245	215,988	N.A.	N.A.
Reads and writes	134,855	55,674			159,004	43,887	290,325	53,473	1,135,408	441,670
Primary	78,996	12,272			112,102	18,475	282,452	37,759	949,686	308,116
Preparatory/ Intermediate/vocational	68,481	23,315			79,164	15,912	146,593	28,991	1,075,907	342,256
Secondary	70,490	20,329			87,770	24,231	203,202	46,235	756,067	313,262
Post-Secondary/ Pre-Univ. Diploma	39,658	16,046			31,361	11,290	29,449	9,986	227,873	88,460
University	24,739	9,748			45,915	23,481	122,130	59,903	497,409	252,638
Master degree/ Higher Diploma	10,423	3,763			11,247	6,346			48,524	18,166
Ph.D	915	257			2,470	907			23,649	9,158
Not Stated/other	13	69			68	5	41	29
Total	447,078	152,425			591,063	165,330	1,113,075	244,488	5,345,768	1,989,714

Sources: national censuses, 2010 round.

ANNEXED NOTE

Sources: 
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain: national censuses, 2010 round. Publications from each country’s statistical offices, as tabulated in GLMM database for each country.
Oman: GCC Stat center’s compilation of 2010 census round’s data for educational attainment (downloaded in June 2015,
but not yet available on GCC stats center’s website as of November 2017) .
Data for Kuwait (PACI) are unavailable for 2010; no data is available for the UAE for 2010 (no census), or for any of the Emirates.

Definitions:
Levels of educational attainment are adapted from ISCED classification.
The educational attainment level of an individual is the highest ISCED level successfully completed.
Categories’ labels were standardised. Each country’s data were redistributed under the new labels.

Table as of 11 November 2017.

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