Nationals
	Bahrain		Kuwait*		Oman		Qatar		Saudi Arabia		UAE
	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females
Illiterate	N.A.	N.A.	2,267	21,773	N.A.	N.A.	79	2,831	98,846	352,870	N.A.	N.A.
Reads and writes			4,099	7,006			4,537	5,530	233,657	637,215
Primary			97,375	79,240			7,072	6,568	582,248	687,350
Preparatory/ Intermediate/vocational			136,435	111,715			16,572	17,361	1,302,119	1,258,266
Secondary			97,141	100,401			34,873	26,346	2,982,586	2,321,605
Post-Secondary/ Pre-Univ. Diploma			41,834	53,848			3,139	3,966	434,094	195,699
University/ BA			46,719	83,643			28,046	36,660	1,157,165	1,247,805
Master degree/ Higher Diploma			3,552	1,583					67,079	24,128
Ph.D									19,166	4,097
Not Stated/other			58,387	60,034
Total			487,809	519,243			94,318	99,262	6,876,960	6,729,035

 

	Foreign nationals
	Bahrain		Kuwait*		Oman		Qatar		Saudi Arabia		UAE
	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females	males	females
Illiterate	N.A.	N.A.	68,536	39,285	N.A.	N.A.	26,395	4,055	85,087	48,138	N.A.	N.A.
Reads and writes			696,514	286,809			204,228	33,885	745,172	369,270
Primary			125,193	72,029			370,766	57,824	1,238,525	405,801
Preparatory/ Intermediate/vocational			501,764	186,149			533,614	60,381	2,064,411	722,718
Secondary			183,033	96,695			298,791	75,977	1,574,424	778,323
Post-Secondary/ Pre-Univ. Diploma			40,576	18,729			84,720	20,121	387,645	101,544
University			85,073	51,426			234,738	107,614	1,025,418	447,624
Master degree/ Higher Diploma			4,721	1,747					71,693	25,948
Ph.D									38,283	16,096
Not Stated/other			230,750	85,317
Total			1,936,160	838,186			1,753,252	359,857	7,230,658	2,915,462

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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