administrative deportations		legal deportations		Total deportations
year	All charges	Residence law violations	All charges	Residence law violations	Deportations, all charges	Deportations, residency law violations
2008	20,457	15,467	819	28	21,276	15,495
2009	23,024	16,141	925	24	23,949	16,165
2010	24,138	9,750	1,011	33	25,149	9,783
2011	14,679	4,708	1,242	54	15,921	4,762
2012	15,259	4,479	1,045	43	16,304	4,522
2013	22,356	7,304	948	64	23,304	7,368
2014	20,766	5,015	598	22	21,364	5,037
2015	23,979	5,490	708	29	24,687	5,519
2016	30,391	6,211	853	41	31,244	6,252
2017	27,175	6,089	745	23	27,920	6,112

Source: Ministry of Interior
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Definitions
 
all charges’ includes ‘residence law violation’

The Interior Minister can issue an order to deport a foreigner in the following cases:

1. If there is a court ruling ordering the deportation of the foreigner after serving a prison sentence (legal deportation).

2. If his/her presence in the country is judged detrimental to public order and security and 3. If he/she does not have an apparent source of income (administrative deportation).
The foreigner is then turned over to the Deportation Department, upon decision from the Ministry of Interior.
A deported foreigner will have his dependent family deported with him. Once the deported foreigner leaves the country, he/she is not allowed back to Kuwait,
unless the Interior Minister issues amnesty or pardon.

2. Institution which provides data 

Central Statistical Bureau (CSB), Ministry of Planning

3. Data availability 

Published in the CSB’ Statistical Yearbooks, in Chapter “Social Services and Security” and in the “Annual Bulletins of Social Statistics”.
Statistical Yearbooks are available online at: https://www.csb.gov.kw/Pages/Statistics_en?ID=18&ParentCatID=2 (website in English)
and at https://www.csb.gov.kw/Pages/Statistics?ID=18&ParentCatID=2 (Arabic website).
Volumes are bilingual (English and Arabic). Every Yearbook is published in PDF format since 2000 and in PDF and Excel formats since 2013.
Bulletins of Social Statistics are available in bilingual version, in PDF and Excel formats:
https://www.csb.gov.kw/Pages/Statistics_en?ID=40&ParentCatID=70

Date of access: February 2019.

 

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