Kuwait: Population by nationality group and sex (census 2021)

  Male Female Total
GCC countries 806,172 829,028 1,635,200
Arab countries 735,087 328,684 1,063,771
Asia 1,100,082 512,150 1,612,232
Sub-Saharan Africa 10,223 28,792 39,015
Europe 7,654 7,126 14,780
North America 10,206 7,263 17,469
South America 1,094 834 1,928
Oceania 748 574 1,322
Total 2,671,266 1,714,451 4,385,717

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.