Work			With Family			Study Training			Medical Treatment			Marriage			Tourism			Business Mission			Other			Total
	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total	males	females	total
GCC	820	20	840	771	1,044	1,815	201	191	392	1	6	7	97	426	523	61	31	92	58	9	67	517	475	992	2,526	2,202	4,728
Other Arabs	5,837	788	6,625	3,130	5,451	8,581	95	57	152	2	5	7	37	489	526	21	29	50	5	6	11	959	966	1,925	10,086	7,791	17,877
Asian	102,145	18,069	120,214	8,527	17,853	26,380	206	144	350	10	5	15	65	1,299	1,364	36	47	83	57	28	85	3,047	2,552	5,599	114,093	39,997	154,090
African	107	57	164	34	100	134	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	14	14	1	2	3	0	0	0	17	12	29	159	186	345
European	2,259	874	3,133	622	1,674	2,296	19	16	35	1	0	1	9	212	221	20	24	44	11	3	14	128	120	248	3,069	2,923	5,992
North American	514	131	645	167	358	525	19	18	37	1	0	1	1	28	29	3	6	9	19	3	22	17	18	35	741	562	1,303
South American	30	8	38	10	31	41	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	42	51	93
Oceanian	127	28	155	44	92	136	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	6	0	0	0	4	3	7	177	127	304
Total	111,839	19,975	131,814	13,305	26,603	39,908	541	428	969	15	16	31	209	2,477	2,686	144	143	287	150	49	199	4,690	4,148	8,838	130,893	53,839	184,732

Source: Central Informatics Organization (CIO)

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

This table shows the non-Bahraini residences by nationality group, sex and reason of residence in the census of 1991.

census year	reference period	implementing institution	implementation method		population covered
1981	November 16	Ministry of Finance Statistics Department	field interviews	de jure, de facto	all individuals (nationals and non-nationals): 1- present within the country’s borders during time of reference; 2- residing in Bahrain irrespective of where are they at census times
1991	April 6	Central Informatics Organisation (CIO)	field interviews
2001	April 7		field interviews; characteristics of population in collective households (among which labour camps) was obtained from sponsors
2010	April 27		based on administrative records

Nationality of the person is defined by the passport used to enter the country. A Non-Bahrainis is considered as such depending on the passport used to enter the country (or obtain the visa).

Note that some of the sub-totals on the CIO table do not match those as they appear in this table. The figures of the males and females are considered fixed and added accordingly.

2. Institution which provides data

Central Informatics Organization, known prior to 2001 as the “Central Statistics Organisation” under the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs.

3. Data availability

Figures and results reported here are available on the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) website: (http://www.cio.gov.bh)
CIO figures and results are often reported in tables in both PDF and Excel formats.
The 1991 data for this table can be found: (http://www.cio.gov.bh/cio_ara/English/Publications/Statistical%20Abstract/ABS2008/Ch2/31A.pdf).
They can also be found in the Statistical Abstracts of 2000, 2001 and 2002 under the Population section.

Date of access: August 2014

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