Nationals
	Bahrain	Kuwait*	Oman	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	UAE
Illiterate	N.A.	24,040	N.A.	3,616	451,716	N.A.
Reads and writes		11,105		10,067	870,872
Primary		176,615		13,640	1,269,598
Preparatory/ Intermediate/vocational		248,150		33,933	2,560,385
Secondary		197,542		61,219	5,304,191
Post-Secondary/ Pre-Univ. Diploma		95,682		7,105	629,793
University		130,362		64,706	2,404,970
Master degree/ Higher Diploma		5,135			91,207
Ph.D					23,263
Not Stated/other		118,421
Total		1,007,052		194,286	13,605,995

 

	Foreign nationals
	Bahrain	Kuwait*	Oman	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	UAE
Illiterate	N.A.	107,821	N.A.	30,450	133,225	N.A.
Reads and writes		983,323		238,113	1,114,442
Primary		197,222		428,590	1,644,326
Preparatory/ Intermediate/vocational		687,913		593,995	2,787,129
Secondary		279,728		374,768	2,352,747
Post-Secondary/ Pre-Univ. Diploma		59,305		104,841	489,189
University		136,499		342,352	1,473,042
Master degree/ Higher Diploma		6,468			97,641
Ph.D					54,379
Not Stated/other		316,067
Total		2,774,346		2,113,109	10,146,120

Sources: see below.
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
Sources: 
Saudi Arabia: GLMM calculations, based on the published results of Labour Force Survey 2016 (Q3, Aug. 2016), General Authority for Statistics (GAStat).
https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/814
Qatar: Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample survey 2016 (yearly synthesis), Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics
http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/statistics/Statistical%20Releases/Social/LaborForce/2016/Labour_force_2016_AE.pdf.
Kuwait: Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) records (December 2016).
(http://www.paci.gov.kw/en/ (English); http://www.paci.gov.kw/ (Arabic))

Oman, Bahrain, UAE: no data available for the year 2016.

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.

* Kuwait: population aged 10 and above.

Table as of 11 November 2017.

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