Kuwaitis	Non-Kuwaitis								Total labour force
		Arabs	Asians	Africans	Europeans	N. Americans	S. Americans	Aus.- Oceanians	Total non-Kuwaitis
Agriculture, hunting and forestry	451	16,286	42,230	620	22	9	2	2	59,171	59,622
Fishing	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Mining and quarrying	334	974	585	17	2	2	0	0	1,580	1,914
Manufacturing	4,476	42,110	104,430	563	277	188	51	16	147,635	152,111
Electricity, gas and water supply	5	99	332	2	1	2	0	0	436	441
Construction	17,573	145,598	271,965	1,153	2,086	3,594	182	155	424,733	442,306
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods	14,762	171,997	229,811	1,415	2,056	1,666	188	151	407,284	422,046
Hotels and restaurants	1,566	36,062	71,513	755	485	135	59	8	109,017	110,583
Transport, storage and communication	2,686	28,595	39,563	314	119	92	5	4	68,692	71,378
Financial intermediation	8,209	7,432	6,172	140	148	173	14	21	14,100	22,309
Real estate, renting and business activities	22,527	63,555	94,355	679	837	1,679	85	91	161,281	183,808
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	338,940	73,863	51,800	417	1,383	967	110	69	128,609	467,549
Education	2,069	15,215	7,913	505	1,802	1,352	84	151	27,022	29,091
Health and social work	688	7,754	12,685	34	463	119	18	12	21,085	21,773
Other community, social and personal service activities	2,594	24,725	75,368	1,155	481	357	41	24	102,151	104,745
Private households with employed persons	84	3,789	617,287	35,897	30	4	7	0	657,014	657,098
Extra-territorial organizations and bodies	4	189	189	54	46	1	8	0	487	491
Not Stated	8,354	28,333	38,615	243	374	139	44	18	67,766	76,120
Total	425,324	666,576	1,664,813	43,963	10,612	10,479	898	722	2,398,063	2,823,387

Source: PACI
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Characteristics of data and definitions

The source of data used here is the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), an independant government body in charge of :
1- centralising all population and labour force data in order to manage a fully computerised population register
2- issuing mandatory civil identification cards to every resident of the country, regardless of age and nationality.

The Biduns, stateless persons living in the Emirate, are counted with the non-nationals.

Data refer to the population employed and unemployed, registered in the three sectors of employment (public, private, domestic)
Employed population in the labour force: population aged 15 years and above, in paid employment in the government or private sector, as itinerant worker, or in the domestic sector.

Note: figures of expatriates may differ slightly between PACI’s various sources of data (database; tabulated data) and topic covered.

2. Institution which provides data 

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

3. Period of data coverage: December 2018

The database is updated three times a year and the website presents only the most recent data.

4. Data availability 

The statistics section of PACI’s website (“Statistical Reports”) (http://stat.paci.gov.kw/englishreports/ (English); http://stat.paci.gov.kw/arabicreports/ (Arabic))
provides population and socio-economic data broken down by nationality (Kuwaiti/ non-Kuwaiti). Some data are displayed by nationality groups.
Analytical tables and data crosstabulations are available for download in PDF, html, .png and Excel (.csv) formats.

Date of access: February 2019.

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