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Kuwait: Non-Kuwaiti population by place of birth (in Kuwait/ outside Kuwait), sex and age group (census 2021)

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  Born inside Kuwait Born outside Kuwait Total
  Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
0-4 48,697 46,624 95,321 5,953 5,666 11,619 54,650 52,290 106,940
5-9 51,124 48,852 99,976 16,491 15,569 32,060 67,615 64,421 132,036
10-14 41,562 39,701 81,263 20,289 18,962 39,251 61,851 58,663 120,514
15-19 28,284 27,198 55,482 18,529 16,544 35,073 46,813 43,742 90,555
20-24 20,732 21,100 41,832 36,859 17,335 54,194 57,591 38,435 96,026
25-29 19,032 18,382 37,414 220,549 62,608 283,157 239,581 80,990 320,571
30-34 18,085 15,840 33,925 283,744 110,336 394,080 301,829 126,176 428,005
35-39 19,432 15,989 35,421 279,731 115,250 394,981 299,163 131,239 430,402
40-44 15,886 11,586 27,472 260,375 105,620 365,995 276,261 117,206 393,467
45-49 10,781 7,563 18,344 192,623 81,867 274,490 203,404 89,430 292,834
50-54 8,125 5,799 13,924 141,372 53,082 194,454 149,497 58,881 208,378
55-59 4,980 3,141 8,121 84,391 29,333 113,724 89,371 32,474 121,845
60-64 2,283 1,152 3,435 37,177 14,201 51,378 39,460 15,353 54,813
65-69 1,102 395 1,497 15,471 6,692 22,163 16,573 7,087 23,660
70-74 594 136 730 6,257 3,504 9,761 6,851 3,640 10,491
75-79 449 82 531 2,602 1,916 4,518 3,051 1,998 5,049
80-84 208 30 238 1,127 972 2,099 1,335 1,002 2,337
85 + 115 40 155 660 708 1,368 775 748 1,523
Total 291,471 263,610 555,081 1,624,200 660,165 2,284,365 1,915,671 923,775 2,839,446

Source: Central Statistics Bureau (CSB)/The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

  1. Characteristics of data and definitions

 

The 2021 Kuwait census is the eleventh census conducted in the country, and the first to be based on administrative records.

The Ministry of State for Communications and Information Technology has implemented the records-based population, establishments and building

census through cooperation with the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) and the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI).

The census data was selected from the recommended data basket guide for the Unified Population and Housing Register-based Census 2020

for the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf issued by the Gulf Statistics Center for the year 2019,

and from the data basket of the general census of the State of Kuwait 2011.

Definitions and concepts used:

https://census.csb.gov.kw/CensusData_EN

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

The Central Statistical Bureau (CSB)

https://www.csb.gov.kw/

https://www.csb.gov.kw/default_en

 

  1. Data availability

 

Kuwait Census 2022 page (Population, Housing and Establishments census):

https://census.csb.gov.kw/index_EN

 

Population census:

https://census.csb.gov.kw/CensusData_EN?id=1

 

Last date of access: 05 August 2023.

 

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.

 

Keywords: Kuwait, Foreign Population, National Population, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, Arab Countries.

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