Kuwait: Population aged 15 and above by nationality (Kuwaiti/ non-Kuwaiti), sex, age group and marital status (2013)

Age	KUWAITIS							NON-KUWAITIS
group		Never Married	Married	Divorced	Widowed	Not Stated	Total	Never Married	Married	Divorced	Widowed	Not Stated	Total
15-19	males	66,661	419	47		65	67,192	38,253	453	3	1	5,716	44,426
	females	60,060	4,050	249	4	57	64,420	32,612	2,370	84	3	5,415	40,484
	total	126,721	4,469	296	4	122	131,612	70,865	2,823	87	4	11,131	84,910
20-24	males	45,942	11,161	897	1	32	58,033	63,755	26,471	128	19	6,131	96,504
	females	33,166	20,737	2,482	31	22	56,438	36,161	29,655	705	35	4,330	70,886
	total	79,108	31,898	3,379	32	54	114,471	99,916	56,126	833	54	10,461	167,390
25-29	males	18,693	29,632	2,545	8	35	50,913	146,646	110,640	605	52	710	258,653
	females	13,683	32,428	4,662	129	27	50,929	57,848	92,634	1,636	119	436	152,673
	total	32,376	62,060	7,207	137	62	101,842	204,494	203,274	2,241	171	1,146	411,326
30-34	males	6,047	33,353	2,690	22	67	42,179	158,602	144,627	1,256	74	911	305,470
	females	6,783	32,522	4,685	261	28	44,279	39,756	99,524	2,099	220	106	141,705
	total	12,830	65,875	7,375	283	95	86,458	198,358	244,151	3,355	294	1,017	447,175
35-39	males	2,792	30,582	2,278	60	53	35,765	117,969	146,265	1,370	105	1,252	266,961
	females	4,550	30,316	4,496	550	34	39,946	28,800	88,484	1,868	354	156	119,662
	total	7,342	60,898	6,774	610	87	75,711	146,769	234,749	3,238	459	1,408	386,623
40-44	males	1,722	27,409	1,981	79	48	31,239	87,531	125,457	1,536	108	740	215,372
	females	3,414	26,698	4,202	878	34	35,226	20,471	67,382	1,718	531	129	90,231
	total	5,136	54,107	6,183	957	82	66,465	108,002	192,839	3,254	639	869	305,603
45-49	males	1,161	23,701	1,691	108	34	26,695	55,387	105,893	1,556	119	374	163,329
	females	2,484	23,052	3,856	1,436	40	30,868	12,263	49,505	1,431	694	77	63,970
	total	3,645	46,753	5,547	1,544	74	57,563	67,650	155,398	2,987	813	451	227,299
50-54	males	737	18,322	1,312	154	22	20,547	26,262	76,348	1,230	110	163	104,113
	females	1,765	17,779	3,117	2,116	57	24,834	5,291	29,485	1,079	815	40	36,710
	total	2,502	36,101	4,429	2,270	79	45,381	31,553	105,833	2,309	925	203	140,823
55-59	males	404	13,679	820	237	16	15,156	9,889	53,340	854	135	88	64,306
	females	1,156	13,644	2,151	3,244	41	20,236	1,901	16,226	647	973	18	19,765
	total	1,560	27,323	2,971	3,481	57	35,392	11,790	69,566	1,501	1,108	106	84,071
60-64	males	217	9,060	526	217	10	10,030	2,065	27,876	514	137	25	30,617
	females	714	8,440	1,315	3,805	24	14,298	731	8,587	363	1,046	8	10,735
	total	931	17,500	1,841	4,022	34	24,328	2,796	36,463	877	1,183	33	41,352
>65	males	289	16,537	859	1,460	24	19,169	736	18,811	472	594	9	20,622
	females	613	10,108	1,811	12,270	62	24,864	514	7,401	398	3,497	16	11,826
	total	902	26,645	2,670	13,730	86	44,033	1,250	26,212	870	4,091	25	32,448
TOTAL	males	144,665	213,855	15,646	2,346	406	376,918	707,095	836,181	9,524	1,454	16,119	1,570,373
	females	128,388	219,774	33,026	24,724	426	406,338	236,348	491,253	12,028	8,287	10,731	758,647
	total	273,053	433,629	48,672	27,070	832	783,256	943,443	1,327,434	21,552	9,741	26,850	2,329,020

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.

Since 1995 a marked discrepancy was witnessed between PACI’ and CSO’ population figures. PACI’ 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).

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

 

3. Period of data coverage: December 2013

 

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 (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.

 

Date of access: March 2014.