Departures
	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Kuwait	3,330,064	3,484,743	3,732,701	4,078,973	4,376,313	4,275,151	4,242,837	4,225,026
Other GCC Countries	1,921,482	2,274,580	2,421,562	2,717,363	2,864,362	3,076,908	3,055,650	3,203,970
Bahrain	119,816	121,160	164,695	229,729	235,997	263,070	236,330	248,373
Oman	17,948	17,812	19,774	20,945	22,714	23,261	24,777	28,636
Qatar	30,905	32,848	35,625	38,948	49,066	57,495	67,596	86,265
Saudi Arabia	1,707,076	2,058,350	2,151,987	2,363,647	2,480,981	2,643,826	2,624,808	2,737,223
United Arab Emirates	45,737	44,410	49,481	64,094	75,604	89,256	102,139	103,473
Asian Arab Countries	608,466	557,111	524,042	510,879	527,609	546,069	536,816	548,932
Iraq	69,387	70,665	77,296	77,325	77,329	76,578	71,044	68,956
Jordan	94,208	96,156	102,053	112,075	121,460	135,309	134,972	136,203
Lebanon	119,211	105,536	108,385	111,382	117,978	126,000	129,488	134,729
Palestine	7,696	6,731	6,849	6,933	7,352	7,946	8,223	8,384
Syria	307,316	268,346	218,241	191,830	191,649	191,034	183,700	190,078
Yemen	10,648	9,677	11,218	11,334	11,841	9,202	9,389	10,582
Asian Muslim Countries	518,125	493,717	441,427	457,522	482,329	479,576	473,421	479,054
Afghanistan	13,577	13,271	12,697	13,311	13,145	13,496	12,768	13,626
Azerbaijan	263	348	414	502	625	627	595	880
Bangladesh	114,113	122,441	110,559	112,808	117,939	115,021	124,882	134,209
Brunei	40	13	21	9	23	19	7	32
Indonesia	59,017	46,429	24,016	16,690	13,783	12,315	10,712	9,905
Iran	82,584	74,165	73,880	77,224	78,181	76,558	73,770	73,615
Kazakhstan	236	281	219	323	436	535	689	1,098
Kyrgyzstan	632	702	646	818	1,027	943	1,126	1,551
Malaysia	4,054	4,345	4,224	4,747	4,013	4,143	4,518	5,330
Maldives Islands	14	42	49	86	65	88	31	36
Pakistan	231,508	219,817	203,610	218,563	236,180	235,790	222,490	211,423
Tajikstan	110	125	203	367	231	281	271	186
Turkey	11,337	11,183	10,271	11,561	16,101	19,049	20,844	26,138
Turkmenistan	49	12	28	25	56	151	116	197
Uzbekistan	591	543	590	488	524	560	602	828
Others
Other Asian Countries	1,025,203	1,081,859	1,090,118	1,207,004	1,300,454	1,394,577	1,517,068	1,636,078
Armenia	510	578	564	805	1,244	2,270	2,932	3,153
Bhutan	70	110	75	114	76	130	219	620
Borneo	50	84	91	63	55	103	68	64
Cambodia	56	68	107	78	152	122	97	126
Cyprus	288	380	601	572	562	579	634	691
East Timur	8	6	5	4	7	7	1	3
Georgia	1,816	1,160	563	544	577	690	707	1,121
Hong Kong	250	210	223	273	258	287	222	306
India	727,722	768,680	782,368	872,026	942,574	1,009,173	1,093,385	1,197,953
Japan	4,942	4,849	5,280	5,061	5,201	5,179	5,412	5,586
Korea	7,715	9,778	11,021	11,990	13,955	15,336	15,049	18,171
Laos	17	16	31	26	13	46	28	38
Macau	5	11	3	3	3	4	8	15
Mongolia	162	398	207	193	205	265	214	180
Myanmar (Burma)	196	270	354	282	348	413	336	280
Nepal	44,544	47,750	43,915	46,524	51,026	49,747	52,268	47,537
North Korea	0	477	384	305	190	190	178	3,218
Philippines	121,556	125,195	131,499	151,062	168,821	186,124	217,701	230,210
Republic of China	10,488	13,094	14,050	15,086	15,422	19,725	24,748	29,629
Singapore	1,338	1,306	1,149	1,077	1,097	1,123	1,171	1,247
South Korea	1,167	945	1,006	1,473	1,579	1,557	1,674	636
Sri Lanka	93,427	99,645	90,090	92,395	90,407	94,139	90,285	80,076
Thailand	8,074	6,149	5,868	6,463	5,990	6,439	8,712	13,956
Timur Islands			1	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwan	160	193	117	187	175	249	260	296
Vietnam	642	507	546	398	517	680	759	966
African Arab Countries	599,027	610,487	658,148	731,440	788,637	853,814	914,016	958,463
Algeria	3,679	3,571	4,039	4,290	4,340	4,306	4,458	4,855
Comoros Islands	395	297	420	474	402	521	518	623
Djibouti	96	78	116	159	208	210	181	211
Egypt	564,061	576,116	619,909	689,331	744,554	807,405	865,000	900,839
Libya	684	447	763	917	668	547	647	1,066
Mauritania	11,840	290	380	508	13,223	13,338	13,678	503
Morocco	267	11,367	12,778	13,848	547	473	548	16,897
Somalia	2,238	2,019	1,992	2,016	2,003	2,129	2,079	2,210
South Sudan	7,916	8,473	9,060	62	7	16	24	48
Sudan				11,110				17,379
Tunisia	7,851	7,829	8,691	8,725	8,750	9,431	10,813	13,832
African Muslim Countries	4,747	4,434	4,395	6,460	6,964	8,757	8,253	9,234
Benin	181	218	248	262	242	294	439	591
Burkina Faso	69	96	97	144	132	232	322	313
Cameroon	106	55	48	128	117	1,347	1,475	1,346
Chad	1,029	782	575	817	999	1,077	823	730
Eritrea	1,146	1,084	1,012	1,098	1,226	1,128	790	872
Gabon	5	4	9	88	15	11	20	21
Gambia	50	63	71	122	81	134	176	166
Mali	108	126	164	497	752	612	654	778
Niger	166	188	199	209	206	236	267	320
Nigeria	1,313	1,182	1,167	1,380	1,272	1,449	1,321	1,473
Senegal	321	374	436	462	424	514	675	662
Sierra Leone	132	146	168	232	233	232	373	1,263
Uganda	121	116	201	1,021	1,265	1,491	918	699
Other African Countries	34,731	45,431	61,684	73,827	66,198	58,888	49,615	40,443
Angola	12	15	34	45	27	25	24	24
Botswana	5	22	35	39	50	43	42	38
Burundi	10	21	17	58	35	26	42	114
Central African Republic	20	24	30	31	45	30	25	25
Congo (Brazzaville)	0	7	4	44	3	5	5	9
Dem. Republic of Congo	34	36	27	61	39	57	79	97
Ethiopia	23,069	35,509	52,235	61,790	53,898	42,027	30,263	20,520
Ghana	3,038	2,701	2,015	1,692	2,338	6,028	7,002	5,541
Guinea	99	69	83	112	109	70	67	332
Ivory Coast	58	71	76	84	121	299	844	1,480
Kenya	1,655	1,428	1,389	1,398	1,456	1,626	1,422	1,546
Lesotho	57	13	27	73	45	45	60	37
Liberia	280	227	225	226	161	115	93	60
Madagascar	615	268	493	1,796	2,185	2,179	1,869	2,765
Malawi	41	83	102	150	88	84	302	260
Mauritius	123	114	87	124	112	101	112	142
Mozambique	18	33	35	26	26	99	245	329
Namibia	15	14	8	29	14	13	14	13
Rwanda	2	14	18	55	14	28	27	35
Seychelles Islands	28	27	31	45	26	23	21	26
South Africa	4,539	4,079	4,080	4,804	4,502	4,674	5,144	5,368
Swaziland	226	61	114	121	99	92	266	135
Tanzania	202	196	241	421	250	299	236	279
Togo	291	165	70	149	253	564	800	794
Zambia	48	34	17	51	23	20	22	33
Zimbabwe	222	187	177	351	260	307	517	414
Other	24	13	14	52	19	9	72	27
Oceania	19,154	15,540	13,963	13,165	12,978	12,980	13,072	13,403
Australia	15,335	12,596	11,213	10,558	10,472	10,488	10,680	10,938
Fiji Islands	546	163	85	70	87	74	45	64
New Zealand	3,238	2,752	2,637	2,524	2,386	2,390	2,332	2,380
Other	35	29	28	13	32	27	12	21
North America	198,991	190,257	161,215	154,087	141,896	145,848	145,696	160,266
Canada	41,253	38,543	38,981	39,835	39,439	42,322	44,227	45,927
U.S.A	157,733	151,709	122,202	114,251	102,457	103,526	101,466	114,334
Other	5	5	32	1	0	0	3	5
South & Central America	4,715	5,276	5,291	5,432	5,538	5,918	6,814	8,607
Argentina	441	612	529	501	460	426	391	436
Belize	171	153	129	111	58	54	116	167
Bolivia	90	92	79	85	82	76	66	78
Brazil	1,364	1,242	1,224	1,287	1,351	1,290	1,371	1,628
Chile	90	79	88	74	97	68	96	116
Colombia	413	405	468	444	413	513	895	1,134
Costarica	14	23	16	20	29	26	31	147
Cuba	21	32	61	36	66	38	38	70
Dominican Republic	170	198	254	287	255	288	315	374
El Salvador	160	52	39	19	34	26	35	336
Equador	149	154	205	103	90	218	445	908
Grenada	29	13	17	42	56	39	68	97
Guatemala	8	19	30	74	51	37	12	9
Guyana	20	16	23	24	25	17	19	39
Haiti	4	13	9	19	23	44	21	24
Honduras	5	21	11	11	48	33	64	71
Jamaica	55	90	89	87	77	84	152	167
Mexico	262	358	378	504	627	581	811	753
Nicaragua	4	2	4	10	33	30	32	28
Panama	20	19	46	64	68	46	65	47
Paraguay	8	6	5	27	19	8	9	76
Peru	40	49	144	120	102	104	104	102
Suriname	6	2	5	19	5	32	31	36
Trinidad & Tobago	123	131	97	135	97	177	124	98
Uruguay	29	48	48	58	43	45	53	43
Venezuela	965	1,395	1,250	1,198	1,192	1,390	1,404	1,378
Others	54	52	43	73	137	228	472	764
Europe	173,568	171,244	168,525	179,992	185,538	190,235	193,208	223,078
Albania	194	198	209	166	269	247	304	824
Andorra	1	7	8	4	3	0	4	4
Austria	1,998	1,917	1,695	1,794	1,801	1,854	1,980	2,124
Belarus	331	323	253	373	342	453	526	681
Belgium	2,771	2,391	2,047	2,057	2,057	2,275	2,397	2,266
Bosnia & Herzegovina	1,108	1,214	1,037	801	755	863	937	1,040
Bulgaria	3,499	3,281	3,299	3,349	3,644	3,310	2,966	3,900
Croatia	815	756	661	873	1,168	1,046	976	1,234
Czech Republic	1,354	786	622	666	959	1,050	1,107	1,417
Denmark	3,202	3,050	3,249	3,253	3,368	3,358	3,388	3,722
Estonia	30	27	48	67	65	119	100	123
Finland	1,025	1,096	923	919	1,041	903	852	943
France	15,053	15,216	15,735	15,726	16,284	17,110	17,659	19,235
Germany	14,659	14,462	13,313	16,368	16,036	15,308	13,832	14,659
Greece	2,337	2,823	2,487	2,906	3,082	3,709	3,674	4,081
Hungary	1,393	1,318	1,501	1,571	1,816	1,737	1,960	2,205
Iceland	76	97	94	92	86	99	88	109
Ireland	2,955	3,173	3,383	3,408	3,951	3,660	3,616	3,786
Italy	10,945	9,979	10,949	13,472	12,911	13,760	14,229	16,578
Kosovo	194	195	196	113	117	93	150	508
Latvia	81	91	155	139	141	162	123	232
Liechtenstein	10	13	68	10	23	17	10	7
Lithuania	108	116	206	190	264	384	340	372
Luxembourg	89	82	101	91	84	87	82	111
Macedonia	814	369	396	446	544	526	576	1,984
Malta	213	168	221	234	235	235	236	370
Moldova	52	50	71	50	48	59	77	68
Monaco	6	1	3	3	1	1	3	3
Montenegro	11	32	40	48	41	101	65	66
Netherlands	7,053	7,560	6,637	7,824	8,626	9,670	9,792	9,622
Norway	2,656	2,445	1,961	1,532	1,386	1,300	1,344	1,595
Poland	1,942	1,749	1,815	1,940	2,407	2,924	2,825	4,298
Portugal	1,156	970	1,461	2,015	2,670	3,233	3,644	4,118
Romania	5,569	3,535	3,412	3,904	4,595	5,543	5,103	6,396
Russian Federation	2,395	3,116	2,999	3,211	3,536	3,765	4,783	6,279
San Marino	3	6	8	10	6	2	3	6
Serbia	583	912	909	1,133	1,293	1,669	2,087	2,610
Slovakia	2,755	910	710	756	767	805	664	870
Slovenia	287	224	295	379	394	422	312	448
Spain	6,595	6,120	5,629	6,950	8,014	8,486	9,000	9,639
Sweden	6,453	6,789	6,842	5,461	4,658	4,305	4,222	4,491
Switzerland	2,098	2,173	2,045	2,038	2,102	1,915	1,888	1,919
Ukraine	1,042	1,022	1,142	1,421	1,432	1,738	2,337	9,554
United Kingdom	67,106	70,090	69,372	71,917	72,235	71,659	72,348	77,915
Vatican	8	17	20	25	30	25	8	25
Yugoslavia	543	375	298	287	251	248	165	123
Others			0	0
Others	34,686	37,330	51,373	53,157	44,718	37,762	31,178	32,401
U.N	66	140	197	123	134	57	88	74
Unstated Nationality	278	249	217	182	145	143	94	88
Non Kuwaiti	34,342	36,941	50,959	52,852	44,439	37,562	30,996	32,239
Grand Total	8,472,959	8,972,009	9,334,444	10,189,301	10,803,534	11,086,483	11,187,644	11,538,955

Source: Annual Statistical Bulletin of Transport and Communication
 
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Definitions

The “Non-Kuwaitis are the Bidoun populations.

2. Institution which provides data 

Central Statistical Bureau (CSB), Ministry of Planning

3. Data availability 

The data is taken from the Annual Statistical Bulletin of Transport and Communication (available in PDF; also in Excel format since 2013).
https://www.csb.gov.kw/Pages/Statistics_en?ID=41&ParentCatID=%2070
https://www.csb.gov.kw/Pages/Statistics?ID=41&ParentCatID=+70

Date of access: December 2018.

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