Government			Private			Domestic			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Kuwaitis	170,481	164,772	335,253	33,708	29,396	63,104	0	0	0	204,189	194,168	398,357
Arabs	48,179	22,069	70,248	545,719	37,719	583,438	3,087	333	3,420	596,985	60,121	657,106
Asians	30,466	19,252	49,718	917,058	87,724	1,004,782	343,628	265,934	609,562	1,291,152	372,910	1,664,062
Africans	379	146	525	5,408	2,676	8,084	2,850	32,500	35,350	8,637	35,322	43,959
Europeans	858	562	1,420	6,347	2,750	9,097	4	6	10	7,209	3,318	10,527
N. Americans	763	174	937	7,134	2,359	9,493	0	0	0	7,897	2,533	10,430
S. Americans	74	23	97	605	172	777	1	3	4	680	198	878
Australians/ Oceanians	60	9	69	497	144	641	0	0	0	557	153	710
Total non-Kuwaitis	80,779	42,235	123,014	1,482,768	133,544	1,616,312	349,570	298,776	648,346	1,913,117	474,555	2,387,672
Grand total	251,260	207,007	458,267	1,516,476	162,940	1,679,416	349,570	298,776	648,346	2,117,306	668,723	2,786,029

Source: PACI
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Characteristics of data and definitions

The source of data used here is the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), an independant government body in charge of :
1- centralising all population and labour force data in order to manage a fully computerised population register
2- issuing mandatory civil identification cards to every resident of the country, regardless of age and nationality.

(a) Kuwaiti: the Kuwaiti nationality rests upon a document of Kuwaiti nationality or a certificate proving Kuwaiti nationality issued by the Ministry of Interior of Kuwait.

(b) Non-Kuwaiti: his/ her nationality is determined by the name of the State having issued the passport. The foreign national also entered Kuwait legally and has a stamp of residence.
The Biduns, stateless persons living in the Emirate, are counted with the non-nationals.

(c) Employed population in the labour force: population aged 15 years and above, in paid employment in the government or private sector, as itinerant worker, or in the domestic sector.

(d) Government sector: any organization of the government (organizations, authority and departments), included within the state budget
(Ministries and government departments; authorities with attached budgets; authorities with independent budgets).

(e) Non-governmental sector: any part of the private sector (a company or an individual) or any authority of the non-governmental sector.

(f) Domestic services sector: the household/ family sector, where the work is associated with the residence and its inhabitants,
their service and their comfort (including maids, nannies, cooks, drivers, etc.).

Note: figures of expatriates may differ slightly between PACI’s various sources of data (database; tabulated data) and topic covered.

2. Institution which provides data 

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

3. Period of data coverage: December 2018

The database is updated three times a year and the website presents only the most recent data.

4. Data availability 

The statistics section of PACI’s website (“Statistical Reports”) (http://stat.paci.gov.kw/englishreports/ (English); http://stat.paci.gov.kw/arabicreports/ (Arabic))
provides population and socio-economic data broken down by nationality (Kuwaiti/ non-Kuwaiti). Some data are displayed by nationality groups.
Analytical tables and data crosstabulations are available for download in PDF, html, .png and Excel (.csv) formats.

Date of access: February 2019.

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