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Demographics of Kuwait

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Demographics of Kuwait

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Kuwait.

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Map of Kuwait

Expatriates account for 74% of Kuwait's total population, Kuwaitis are only 28% of the total population. The government and people of Kuwait consider the high level of expatriates to be a problem. Kuwait consists of six governorates: Hawalli, Asimah (Capital), Farwaniyah, Jahra, Ahmadi and Mubarak Al-Kabeer.

Governorates

Kuwait consists of six governorates: Hawalli, Asimah, Farwaniyah, Jahra, Ahmadi and Mubarak Al-Kabeer. Most Kuwaitis live in the governorates of Hawalli, Asimah and Farwaniyah.

Historical populations

The biggest population difficulty in Kuwait involves the Bedoon, a stateless people numbering just over 100,000 who are classed as illegal residents and who are trying to claim Kuwaiti citizenship. Critics argue that these people are Arabs who migrated from Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia; a large part of the problem the Bedoon face is that these other states do not consider them as their nationals either. In 2013, a law was passed to grant citizenship to 4,000 of these people as part of an attempt to resolve the problem. However, the government has said that only a third of the Bedoon would qualify for possible naturalization as it considers that the rest hold other nationalities, with officials alleging that they have destroyed their documents in order to claim Kuwaiti citizenship.

Vital statistics

UN estimates
Registered births and deaths

Structure of the population

Structure of the population (10.04.2011) (Census - provisional) :

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.

Age structure
  • 0–14 years: 25.8% (male 348,816; female 321,565)
  • 15–64 years: 72.2% (male 1,153,433; female 720,392)
  • 65 years and over: 2% (male 25,443; female 25,979) (2011 est.)
    • Population growth rate
  • 1.986% (2011 est.)
    • Gender ratio
  • at birth: 1.047 male(s)/female
  • under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
  • 15–64 years: 1.79 male(s)/female
  • 65 years and over: 1.65 male(s)/female
  • total population: 1.54 male(s)/female (2011 est.)
    • Life expectancy at birth
  • total population: 77.09 years
  • male: 75.95 years
  • female: 78.3 years (2011 est.)
    • Total fertility rate
  • 2.64 children born/woman (2011 est.)
    • Nationality
  • noun: Kuwaiti(s)
  • adjective: Kuwaiti
    • Ethnic groups )
  • Kuwaiti 28%, other Arab 27.9%, Asian(mostly south) 37.8%, African 1.9%, other 1.1% (includes European, North American, South American, and Australian) (2013 est.)
    • Languages
  • Arabic (official)
  • English widely spoken
    • Religions
  • Muslim (official) 76.7%
  • Christian 17.3%
  • Other and Unspecified 5.9%
    • Literacy
  • definition: age 15 and over can read and write
  • total population: 94%

    • References

    Demographics of Kuwait Wikipedia
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