Kuwait: Employed population aged 15 and above by nationality (Kuwaiti/ non-Kuwaiti), activity sector and age group (2014)

	Kuwaitis			Non-Kuwaitis
Sector Age group	Government sector	Non-government sector	Total	Government sector	Non-government sector	Domestic sector	Total
15-19	599	3,143	3,742	63	136	44	243
20-24	24,871	18,353	43,224	1,385	61,680	35,102	98,167
25-29	67,740	20,943	88,683	11,265	217,280	115,753	344,298
30-34	64,530	15,231	79,761	22,765	263,459	113,822	400,046
35-39	56,758	11,186	67,944	23,690	235,682	111,121	370,493
40-44	43,526	8,448	51,974	19,578	185,149	87,043	291,770
45-49	30,166	4,883	35,049	15,988	144,571	60,690	221,249
50-54	16,649	2,672	19,321	13,589	94,304	26,661	134,554
55-59	7,460	2,282	9,742	12,104	58,189	10,092	80,385
60-64	4,063	1,791	5,854	7,973	27,641	3,207	38,821
>64	3,778	2,250	6,028	5,486	17,937	1,267	24,690
Total	320,140	91,182	411,322	133,886	1,306,028	564,802	2,004,716

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.

The other source of demographic and socioeconomic data on Kuwait is the Central Statistical Office (CSO), operating within the Planning Ministry. The CSO has conducted ten population and housing censuses since its inception in 1957.

(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.
This category includes the Bidoon, a category of stateless persons living in the Emirate. Kuwait’s Bidoon population originates from three broad categories:
1) those whose ancestors failed to apply for nationality or lacked necessary documentation at the time of Kuwait’s independence in 1961;
2) those recruited to work in Kuwait’s army or police force during the 1960s who permanently settled in Kuwait, along with their families;
3) children of Kuwaiti mothers and stateless or foreign fathers (see Human Rights Watch. Prisoners of the Past. Kuwaiti Bidun and the Burden of Statelessness, June 2011, p. 3).

(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 differ slightly between PACI’s various sources of data (database; tabulated data).
2. Institution which provides data

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

3. Period of data coverage: December 2014

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

4. Data availability
Analytical tables and data crosstabulations are available for download in PDF, html, .png and Excel (.csv) formats.

Date of access: April 2015.