Kuwait: Population in the labour force aged 15 and above by nationality group and occupation group (December 2014)

Kuwaiti Arab Asian African European N. American S. American Australian-Oceanian Total
Legislators, senior officials and managers 10,887 32,148 20,643 264 1,347 1,375 115 127 66,906
Professionals 74,262 79,452 29,173 326 2,322 2,103 146 261 188,045
Technicians and associate professionals 81,287 22,841 49,034 161 736 2,189 63 38 156,349
Clerks 159,917 65,269 44,350 527 784 538 76 52 271,513
Service workers and shop and market sales workers 68,228 104,988 509,090 52,341 968 742 119 51 736,527
Skilled agricultural and fishery workers 126 5,191 11,776 266 2 0 0 0 17,361
Craft and related trades workers 10,133 55,248 129,904 264 368 458 39 19 196,433
Production supervisors and foremen 5,316 60,087 279,354 1,027 313 1,476 31 11 347,615
Regular work professionals 113 101,914 218,327 1,918 194 249 17 10 322,742
Non-stated 12,056 68,758 67,224 1,529 1,620 1,702 94 124 153,107
Total 422,325 595,896 1,358,875 58,623 8,654 10,832 700 693 2,456,598

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.

(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 having 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).

(c) Population in the labour force: population aged 15 years and above, included in the labour market, either employed (in the government or private sector, as itinerant worker, employed in the domestic sector), or unemployed.
Occupations are categorised according to (slightly adapted) ISCO 88 international classification of occupations (major (1-digit) group titles).

Note: figures of expatriates differ slightly between PACI’s various sources of data (database; tabulated data).

2. Institution which provides data

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI)

3. Period of data coverage: December 2014

The database is updated three times a year and the website presents only the most recent data.

4. Data availability
Analytical tables and data crosstabulations are available for download in PDF, html, .png and Excel (.csv) formats.

Date of access: April 2015.