In labour force				Out of labour force							Not stated	TOTAL
		Governmental sector	Non-governmental sector	Unemployed	Total	Student		Housewife		Retired or has income	Total
15-19	M	190	132	26	348	68,308	0		0		68,308	6,964		75,620
	F	30	48	10	88	64,823	1		0		64,824	8,736		73,648
	T	220	180	36	436	133,131	1		0		133,132	15,700		149,268
20-24	M	12,994	2,575	1,230	16,799	41,547	0		2		41,549	8,620		66,968
	F	11,055	1,552	304	12,911	45,935	10		0		45,945	5,724		64,580
	T	24,049	4,127	1,534	29,710	87,482	10		2		87,494	14,344		131,548
25-29	M	35,087	8,104	2,596	45,787	11,196	0		49		11,245	7,759		64,791
	F	38,513	5,775	1,460	45,748	10,290	66		10		10,366	7,810		63,924
	T	73,600	13,879	4,056	91,535	21,486	66		59		21,611	15,569		128,715
30-34	M	34,520	9,046	1,999	45,565	4,471	0		192		4,663	3,617		53,845
	F	38,556	6,595	1,788	46,939	4,405	201		88		4,694	4,467		56,100
	T	73,076	15,641	3,787	92,504	8,876	201		280		9,357	8,084		109,945
35-39	M	32,346	7,231	1,407	40,984	2,544	0		597		3,141	2,965		47,090
	F	35,289	6,583	1,698	43,570	3,037	381		540		3,958	4,272		51,800
	T	67,635	13,814	3,105	84,554	5,581	381		1,137		7,099	7,237		98,890
40-44	M	26,489	4,471	1,061	32,021	1,203	0		3,199		4,402	2,211		38,634
	F	28,361	5,504	1,425	35,290	1,997	854		1,993		4,844	3,618		43,752
	T	54,850	9,975	2,486	67,311	3,200	854		5,192		9,246	5,829		82,386
45-49	M	18,012	3,024	1,067	22,103	649	0		9,212		9,861	1,436		33,400
	F	19,119	4,389	1,281	24,789	2,304	1,715		6,866		10,885	2,868		38,542
	T	37,131	7,413	2,348	46,892	2,953	1,715		16,078		20,746	4,304		71,942
50-54	M	9,826	1,943	859	12,628	356	0		14,242		14,598	1,218		28,444
	F	9,545	2,932	1,048	13,525	2,410	3,898		11,197		17,505	2,381		33,411
	T	19,371	4,875	1,907	26,153	2,766	3,898		25,439		32,103	3,599		61,855
55-59	M	3,649	1,058	690	5,397	99	0		17,109		17,208	892		23,497
	F	3,417	1,451	801	5,669	858	7,174		12,060		20,092	2,347		28,108
	T	7,066	2,509	1,491	11,066	957	7,174		29,169		37,300	3,239		51,605
60-64	M	1,252	733	267	2,252	23	0		13,776		13,799	562		16,613
	F	993	762	72	1,827	258	7,542		10,821		18,621	1,364		21,812
	T	2,245	1,495	339	4,079	281	7,542		24,597		32,420	1,926		38,425
> 65	M	1,657	1,426	717	3,800	13	0		19,228		19,241	5,216		28,257
	F	886	704	554	2,144	208	25,294		10,309		35,811	2,768		40,723
	T	2,543	2,130	1,271	5,944	221	25,294		29,537		55,052	7,984		68,980
Total	M	176,022	39,743	11,919	227,684	130,409	0		77,606		208,015	41,460		477,159
	F	185,764	36,295	10,441	232,500	136,525	47,136		53,884		237,545	46,355		516,400
	T	361,786	76,038	22,360	460,184	266,934	47,136		131,490		445,560	87,815		993,559

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.

Another 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.

Since 1995 a marked discrepancy was witnessed between PACI’s and CSO’s population figures. PACI’s database is connected electronically with other administrations and bodies registering demographic events and professional/ residency issues (births and death; departures and arrivals; end of service, residency and ID deliveries, etc.).

PACI’s records of residents’ movements is thus regularly updated, which limits the risk of population overcount. Therefore, it is more likely that residents were undercounted during CSO- Ministry of Planning’s census operations (see: Shah, N. Population of Kuwait. Structure and Dynamics, Kuwait: Kuwait University Academic Publication Council, 2010, chapter 1).

(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 which 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).

(The children of Kuwaiti mothers and non-Kuwaiti fathers (with specific nationality) inherit the father’s nationality. They are stateless if the father is stateless).

“Non-governmental sector” is presumably the private sector.

2. Institution which provides data

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

3. Period of data coverage: 31 December

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

4. Data availability

The statistics section of PACI’s website (http://www.paci.gov.kw/en/ (English); http://www.paci.gov.kw/ (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.

PACI website has been inaccessible from outside Kuwait since 2019.

Last date of access: December 2022.                                                                                                      

GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change; that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from; that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.

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