Nationality group	Kuwaitis				Arabs		Asians			Africans				Europeans		North Americans			South Americans			Australians-Oceanians			Total Non-Kuwaitis			Grand total
Sector of economic Activity	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total	Govt. Sector	Non-Govt Sector	Total
Agriculture, hunting and forestry	6	430	436	9	12.043	12.052	11	24.286	24.297	4	575	579	1	31	32	0	33	33	0	2	2	0	9	9	25	36.979	37.004	31	37.409	37.440
Fishing	0	6	6	0	18	18	0	26	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	44	44	0	50	50
Mining and quarrying	5.128	177	5.305	487	813	1.300	16	648	664	0	5	5	1	11	12	2	103	105	1	5	6	1	2	3	508	1.587	2.095	5.636	1.764	7.400
Manufacturing	5.719	3.691	9.410	524	33.490	34.014	782	80.684	81.466	5	150	155	4	172	176	8	214	222	1	17	18	4	16	20	1.328	114.743	116.071	7.047	118.434	125.481
Electricity, gas and water supply	13.801	0	13.801	1.005	77	1.082	800	28	828	25	0	25	10	0	10	2	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	1	1.844	106	1.950	15.645	106	15.751
Construction	85	11.635	11.720	25	70.952	70.977	33	111.527	111.560	0	284	284	1	898	899	0	3.033	3.033	0	95	95	0	63	63	59	186.852	186.911	144	198.487	198.631
Wholesale and retail trade	154	12.860	13.014	115	109.756	109.871	71	168.831	168.902	3	530	533	19	898	917	12	1.073	1.085	0	70	70	1	82	83	221	281.240	281.461	375	294.100	294.475
Hotels and restaurants	174	1.856	2.030	111	21.535	21.646	165	41.090	41.255	0	360	360	0	226	226	1	117	118	0	23	23	0	12	12	277	63.363	63.640	451	65.219	65.670
Transport, storage and communications	4.672	4.445	9.117	981	18.979	19.960	1.497	37.900	39.397	7	98	105	99	168	267	52	156	208	4	24	28	4	13	17	2.644	57.338	59.982	7.316	61.783	69.099
Financial intermediation	1.700	7.603	9.303	340	6.227	6.567	66	5.987	6.053	1	72	73	11	143	154	13	242	255	0	11	11	2	17	19	433	12.699	13.132	2.133	20.302	22.435
Real estate, renting and business activities	429	9.988	10.417	327	39.743	40.070	196	43.565	43.761	1	254	255	0	815	815	1	786	787	0	60	60	0	76	76	525	85.299	85.824	954	95.287	96.241
Public administration and defence, compulsory social security	228.066	10	228.076	58.482	5	58.487	22.100	78	22.178	280	0	280	695	1	696	590	0	590	57	0	57	44	0	44	82.248	84	82.332	310.314	94	310.408
Education	30.673	1.747	32.420	11.112	14.500	25.612	877	5.503	6.380	43	245	288	83	1.065	1.148	118	1.253	1.371	4	30	34	15	119	134	12.252	22.715	34.967	42.925	24.462	67.387
Health and social work	11.288	573	11.861	6.385	4.252	10.637	10.921	6.840	17.761	32	29	61	120	258	378	34	69	103	9	3	12	6	7	13	17.507	11.458	28.965	28.795	12.031	40.826
Other community, social and personal service activities	1.147	2.716	3.863	974	16.815	17.789	1.438	73.913	75.351	6	3.392	3.398	49	350	399	115	1.786	1.901	48	47	95	11	20	31	2.641	96.323	98.964	3.788	99.039	102.827
Private households with employed persons	3	170	173	47	3.300	3.347	147	491.257	491.404	2	55.603	55.605	1	13	14	0	10	10	0	3	3	0	0	0	197	550.186	550.383	200	550.356	550.556
Extra-territorial organizations and bodies	10	15	25	810	302	1.112	985	401	1.386	138	17	155	150	45	195	25	6	31	9	3	12	2	0	2	2.119	774	2.893	2.129	789	2.918
Not Stated	583	37.789	38.372	760	118.318	119.078	169	125.728	125.897	15	1.116	1.131	25	1.299	1.324	8	2.527	2.535	8	141	149	2	122	124	987	249.251	250.238	1.570	287.040	288.610
Total	303.638	95.711	399.349	82.494	471.125	553.619	40.274	1.218.292	1.258.566	562	62.730	63.292	1.269	6.393	7.662	981	11.409	12.390	142	534	676	93	558	651	125.815	1.771.041	1.896.856	429.453	1.866.752	2.296.205

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 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.

 

(d) Government sector: any organization of the government (organizations, authority and departments), included within the state budget

(Ministries and government departments; authorities with attached budgets; authorities with independent budgets).

 

(e) Non-governmental sector: any part of the private sector (a company or an individual) or any authority of the non-governmental sector.

 

(f) Domestic sector: the household/ family sector, where the work is associated with the residence and its inhabitants, their service and their comfort (including maids, nannies, cooks, drivers, etc.).

 

Presented data include unemployed population.

 

Economic activities are categorised according to ISIC( Rev. 3) international classification of economic activity.

 

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 2012

 

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: June 2013.

 

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