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	date/ period	Total population	date/ period	Nationals	Non-nationals	% in total population
Country						Nationals	Non-nationals
Bahrain (1)	mid-2016	1,423,726	mid-2016	664,707	759,019	46.7	53.3
Kuwait (2)	31 December 2016	4,411,124	31 December 2016	1,337,693	3,073,431	30.3	69.7
Oman (3)	7 April 2017	4,599,051	7 April 2017	2,488,755	2,110,296	54.1	45.9
Qatar (4)	February 2017	2,673,022	April   2010	243,073	1,456,362	14.3	85,7
Saudi Arabia (5)	May 2016	31,742,308	May 2016	20,064,970	11,677,338	63.2	36.8
United Arab Emirates (6)	mid-2010	8,264,070	mid-2010	947,997	7,316,073	11.5	88.5
Total*		53,113,301		25,747,195	26,392,519	49.4	50.6

Sources: national institutes of statistics, latest year or period available as of 7 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.

Figures for Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are estimates.
2- Sources of data:
(1) Bahrain Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), CIO’s website, “Statistics” and “Population” sections http://www.data.gov.bh/en/ResourceCenter
(2) Kuwait Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), Statistical Reports, http://www.paci.gov.kw/en/
(3) National Centre for Statistical Information (NCSI), homepage as of 6 April 2017, https://www.ncsi.gov.om/Pages/NCSI.aspx
(4) Qatar Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, homepage as of 6 April 2017, http://www.mdps.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx; Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Census 2010, http://gulfmigration.eu/population-by-nationality-qatari-non-qatari-census-1970-2010/;
(5) Saudi Arabia General Authority for Statistics, Demographic Survey 2016, https://www.stats.gov.sa/sites/default/files/en-demographic-research-2016_4.pdf
(6) UAE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)-now: Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority (FCSA), estimates. http://original.fcsa.gov.ae/EnglishHome/ReportDetailsEnglish/tabid/121/Default.aspx?ItemId=1914&PTID=104&MenuId=1

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