Illiterate		Read and Write		Primary		Interme–diate		Secondary		Diploma		University		Post-Graduate		Not Stated		Total
10-14	Males		52		3,673		35,823		0		0		0		0		0		22,638		62,186
	Females		49		3,227		34,223		0		0		0		0		0		21,471		58,970
	Total		101		6,900		70,046		0		0		0		0		0		44,109		121,156
15-19	Males		88		1,708		5,497		30,975		3,705		0		0		0		5,072		47,045
	Females		81		1,380		4,619		29,043		4,282		0		0		0		4,540		43,945
	Total		169		3,088		10,116		60,018		7,987		0		0		0		9,612		90,990
20-24	Males		524		16,459		4,666		23,248		6,436		290		338		2		6,833		58,796
	Females		243		5,324		3,533		16,551		7,581		328		708		2		4,864		39,134
	Total		767		21,783		8,199		39,799		14,017		618		1,046		4		11,697		97,930
25-29	Males		5,469		121,733		12,598		68,141		17,228		3,126		4,464		50		10,708		243,517
	Females		2,074		33,967		7,560		18,431		9,632		1,584		4,771		46		7,146		85,211
	Total		7,543		155,700		20,158		86,572		26,860		4,710		9,235		96		17,854		328,728
30-34	Males		6,413		142,672		10,311		85,805		25,197		8,744		15,546		327		9,945		304,960
	Females		3,685		57,698		5,652		28,833		13,479		4,062		10,280		240		7,614		131,543
	Total		10,098		200,370		15,963		114,638		38,676		12,806		25,826		567		17,559		436,503
35-39	Males		7,322		127,289		9,661		80,825		28,853		11,707		18,847		890		16,640		302,034
	Females		3,902		57,066		5,671		27,936		13,977		6,406		12,541		539		7,852		135,890
	Total		11,224		184,355		15,332		108,761		42,830		18,113		31,388		1,429		24,492		437,924
40-44	Males		6,776		100,753		9,977		64,913		24,847		10,600		16,579		878		44,721		280,044
	Females		3,871		51,118		5,598		25,288		11,515		5,082		8,939		482		9,335		121,228
	Total		10,647		151,871		15,575		90,201		36,362		15,682		25,518		1,360		54,056		401,272
45-49	Males		6,691		70,629		8,962		45,503		20,888		8,791		12,663		647		31,073		205,847
	Females		4,092		36,726		4,575		20,375		8,155		3,885		6,252		314		7,892		92,266
	Total		10,783		107,355		13,537		65,878		29,043		12,676		18,915		961		38,965		298,113
50-54	Males		7,829		48,084		8,578		32,733		18,755		7,293		9,480		487		17,911		151,150
	Females		4,114		22,013		2,866		12,708		6,810		2,486		3,958		203		5,677		60,835
	Total		11,943		70,097		11,444		45,441		25,565		9,779		13,438		690		23,588		211,985
55-60	Males		6,961		25,137		7,111		16,822		12,563		4,850		8,252		448		8,142		90,286
	Females		3,610		10,169		1,708		5,872		4,846		1,553		2,817		135		3,164		33,874
	Total		10,571		35,306		8,819		22,694		17,409		6,403		11,069		583		11,306		124,160
60-64	Males		3,075		9,569		3,895		7,224		6,080		2,360		5,347		413		2,605		40,568
	Females		2,820		3,878		967		2,420		2,609		866		1,690		96		1,264		16,610
	Total		5,895		13,447		4,862		9,644		8,689		3,226		7,037		509		3,869		57,178
65 +	Males		3,035		5,922		3,393		4,166		4,326		1,884		5,074		686		2,044		30,530
	Females		5,632		2,903		1,105		2,021		2,055		785		1,436		113		950		17,000
	Total		8,667		8,825		4,498		6,187		6,381		2,669		6,510		799		2,994		47,530
Total	Males		54,235		673,628		120,472		460,355		168,878		59,645		96,590		4,828		178,332		1,816,963
	Females		34,173		285,469		78,077		189,478		84,941		27,037		53,392		2,170		81,769		836,506
	Total		88,408		959,097		198,549		649,833		253,819		86,682		149,982		6,998		260,101		2,653,469

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 independent 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).

Classification used for education levels: ISCED. 

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: September 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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