Age Group	Kuwaiti	Arab	Asian	African	European	N.American	S.American	Australian	TOTAL
0-4	165,797	108,253	46,428	455	1,184	2,258	109	177	324,661
5-9	161,291	98,225	40,122	316	1,307	2,135	106	196	303,698
10-14	140,161	74,440	25,076	228	951	1,893	85	164	242,998
15-19	131,900	65,821	17,541	321	698	1,541	102	155	218,079
20-24	118,092	83,119	66,953	9,887	639	1,046	120	117	279,973
25-29	105,239	153,222	225,758	31,876	1,117	1,508	165	89	518,974
30-34	90,762	152,100	287,778	13,393	1,426	1,631	151	118	547,359
35-39	77,544	117,702	285,098	4,537	1,584	1,413	109	119	488,106
40-44	68,154	87,088	228,534	1,630	1,530	1,428	112	115	388,591
45-49	59,570	71,961	166,684	665	1,433	1,670	121	145	302,249
50-54	47,714	51,868	93,811	338	1,255	1,810	111	140	197,047
55-59	36,638	34,842	52,445	263	1,022	1,349	92	93	126,744
60-64	26,831	21,420	22,079	139	668	896	46	75	72,154
>64	46,164	22,603	11,160	66	611	686	30	40	81,360
Total	1,275,857	1,142,664	1,569,467	64,114	15,425	21,264	1,459	1,743	4,091,993

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).

(c) Nationality group: collected according to the nationality of the head of the household.
Nationalities are grouped according to specific features common to certain population subgroups: language, geographic origin, etc. or according to internationally recognized categories such as: (Arab / non-Arab Asian countries / non-Arab African countries; European countries … etc.).

2. Institution which provides data

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

3. Period of data coverage: 31 December 2014

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 2015

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