GCC: National and non-national populations by aggregated age groups in GCC countries (national statistics, 2005-2016)
age | Nationals | Non-nationals | Total population | % non-nationals | |||||
Country | date/ period | group | numbers | % | numbers | % | numbers | % | in each age group |
Bahrain (1) | Mid-2016 | 0-14 | 211,874 | 32 | 71,813 | 9 | 283,687 | 20 | 25 |
15-64 | 422,994 | 64 | 680,427 | 90 | 1,103,421 | 78 | 62 | ||
65+ | 29,839 | 4 | 6,779 | 1 | 36,618 | 3 | 19 | ||
Kuwait (2) | December 2016 | 0-14 | 480,094 | 36 | 408,050 | 13 | 888,144 | 20 | 46 |
15-64 | 806,322 | 60 | 2,624,081 | 85 | 3,430,403 | 78 | 76 | ||
65+ | 51,277 | 4 | 41,300 | 1 | 92,577 | 2 | 45 | ||
Oman(3) | Mid-2016 | 0-14 | 877,433 | 36 | 89,451 | 5 | 966,884 | 22 | 9 |
15-64 | 1,446,377 | 60 | 1,888,594 | 95 | 3,334,971 | 76 | 57 | ||
65+ | 104,015 | 4 | 8,181 | 0 | 112,196 | 3 | 7 | ||
Qatar (4) | April 2010 | 0-14 | 96,811 | 40 | 135,773 | 9 | 232,584 | 14 | 58 |
15-64 | 138,915 | 57 | 1,314,119 | 90 | 1,453,034 | 86 | 90 | ||
65+ | 7,347 | 3 | 6,471 | 0 | 13,818 | 1 | 47 | ||
Saudi Arabia (5) | May 2016 | 0-14 | 6,090,383 | 30 | 1,774,545 | 15 | 7,864,928 | 25 | 23 |
15-64 | 13,136,142 | 65 | 9,713,712 | 83 | 22,849,854 | 72 | 43 | ||
65+ | 838,445 | 4 | 189,081 | 2 | 1,027,526 | 3 | 18 | ||
United Arab Emirates (6) | December 2005 | 0-14 | 313,872 | 38 | 486,699 | 15 | 800,571 | 20 | 61 |
15-64 | 488,592 | 59 | 2,780,314 | 85 | 3,268,906 | 80 | 85 | ||
65+ | 21,708 | 3 | 13,919 | 0 | 35,627 | 1 | 39 | ||
GCC Total* | 0-14 | 8,070,467 | 32 | 2,966,331 | 13 | 11,036,798 | 23 | 27 | |
15-64 | 16,439,342 | 64 | 19,001,247 | 85 | 35,440,589 | 74 | 54 | ||
65+ | 1,052,631 | 4 | 265,731 | 1 | 1,318,362 | 3 | 20 |
Sources: national institutes of statistics, latest year or period available as of 20 April 2017.
* Total provides the sum of population numbers at different dates. It is not exactly the total population at any of these dates.
1- Definition:
Non-nationals are:
1- persons bearing nationality of a foreign State other than the GCC State of residence, or bearing no proof of nationality from any given state (stateless persons and holders of refugee status and travel document in a third country) ;
2- Holders of residence permit residing in the given GCC country at date of census, as per definition of residence used in each of the countries.
2- Sources of data:
(1) Bahrain Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), Open data portal, Statistical Abstracts, “Population 2016” section http://www.data.gov.bh/en/ResourceCenter
(2) Kuwait Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), “Population” Bulletin 2016, 31 December 2016
(3) National Centre for Statistical Information (NCSI), Bulletin of Population Statistics n°5, 2015
(4) Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Census 2010; http://gulfmigration.eu/population-aged-15-years-and-above-by-sex-10-years-age-groups-and-nationality-qatari-non-qatari-and-total-population-by-sex-and-5-years-age-groups-2010/
(5) Saudi Arabia General Authority for Statistics (GAStats), Demographic Survey 2016
(6) UAE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Census 2005.