National and non-national populations by aggregated age groups in GCC countries ((national statistics, latest year or period available)
age | Nationals | Non-nationals | Total population | % non-nationals | |||||
Country | date/ period | group | numbers | % | numbers | % | numbers | % | in each age group |
Bahrain (1) | April 2010 | 0-14 | 180.934 | 32 | 66.669 | 10 | 247.603 | 20 | 27 |
15-64 | 363.888 | 64 | 596.846 | 90 | 960.734 | 78 | 62 | ||
65+ | 23.577 | 4 | 2.657 | 0 | 26.234 | 2 | 10 | ||
Kuwait (2) | December 2013 | 0-14 | 459.243 | 37 | 393.625 | 14 | 852.868 | 22 | 46 |
15-64 | 739.223 | 59 | 2.296.572 | 84 | 3.035.795 | 77 | 76 | ||
65+ | 44.033 | 4 | 32.448 | 1 | 76.481 | 2 | 42 | ||
Oman(3) | mid-2013 | 0-14 | 745.182 | 34 | 90.057 | 5 | 835.239 | 22 | 11 |
15-64 | 1.334.312 | 61 | 1.587.051 | 94 | 2.921.363 | 76 | 54 | ||
65+ | 92.508 | 4 | 6.096 | 0 | 98.604 | 3 | 6 | ||
Qatar (4) | April 2010 | 0-14 | 96.811 | 40 | 135.773 | 9 | 232.584 | 14 | 58 |
15-64 | 138.915 | 57 | 1.314.119 | 90 | 1.453.034 | 86 | 90 | ||
65+ | 7.347 | 3 | 6.471 | 0 | 13.818 | 1 | 47 | ||
Saudi Arabia (5) | February 2007 | 0-14 | 6.512.096 | 37 | 1.270.900 | 20 | 7.782.996 | 32 | 16 |
15-64 | 10.371.695 | 59 | 5.149.958 | 79 | 15.521.653 | 65 | 33 | ||
65+ | 609.573 | 3 | 66.612 | 1 | 676.185 | 3 | 10 | ||
United Arab Emirates (6) | December 2005 | 0-14 | 313.872 | 38 | 486.699 | 15 | 800.571 | 20 | 61 |
15-64 | 488.592 | 59 | 2.780.314 | 85 | 3.268.906 | 80 | 85 | ||
65+ | 21.708 | 3 | 13.919 | 0 | 35.627 | 1 | 39 | ||
GCC Total* | 0-14 | 8.308.138 | 37 | 2.443.723 | 15 | 10.751.861 | 28 | 23 | |
15-64 | 13.436.625 | 60 | 13.724.860 | 84 | 27.161.485 | 70 | 51 | ||
65+ | 798.746 | 4 | 128.203 | 1 | 926.949 | 2 | 14 |
Sources: national institutes of statistics.
* Total provides the sum of population numbers at different dates between December 2005 and mid- 2013. It is not exactly the total population at any of these dates.
1- Definition:
Non-nationals are:
1- persons bearing nationality of a foreign State other than the GCC State of residence, or bearing no proof of nationality from any given state (stateless persons and holders of refugee status and travel document in a third country) ;
2- Holders of residence permit residing in the given GCC country at date of census, as per definition of residence used in each of the countries.
2- Sources of data:
(1) Bahrain Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), Census 2010;
(2) Kuwait Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI); http://gulfmigration.eu/population-by-nationality-kuwaiti-non-kuwaiti-sex-and-age-group-2012/
(3) National Centre for Statistical Information (NCSI), Bulletin of Population Statistics n°3, 2013;
(4) Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), Census 2010; http://gulfmigration.eu/population-aged-15-years-and-above-by-sex-10-years-age-groups-and-nationality-qatari-non-qatari-and-total-population-by-sex-and-5-years-age-groups-2010/
(5) Saudi Arabia Central Department for Statistics and Information (CDSI), Demographic Survey 2007.
(6) UAE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Census 2005.