This is a demography of the population of

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the no ...

( ar, سكان الكويت). Expatriates account for around 60% of Kuwait's total population, with Kuwaitis constituting 38%-42% of the total population. The government and some Kuwaiti citizens consider the proportion of expatriates (which has been relatively stable since the mid-1970s) to be a problem, and in 2016 the number of deportations increased.

Governorates

Kuwait consists of six governorates: Hawalli,

Asimah Asimah is a settlement in Ras Al Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), located on the banks of the Wadi Asimah Wadi Asimah is a seasonal watercourse in the Hajar Mountains of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. It runs broadly we ...

, Farwaniyah, Jahra,

Ahmadi Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...

and Mubarak Al-Kabeer. Most people in Kuwait live in the governorates of Hawalli, Asimah, and Farwaniyah.

Historical populations

The biggest population difficulty in Kuwait involves the Bedoon, stateless people. According to Human Rights Watch in 1995, Kuwait has produced 300,000 stateless Bedoon. Kuwait has the largest number of stateless people in the entire region. The Bedoon issue in Kuwait is largely sectarian.

Vital statistics

;UN estimates ;Registered births and deaths

Structure of the population

Structure of the population (1.01.2020) (Census - provisional):

Life expectancy

Source: ''UN World Population Prospects'' ;Ethnic groups * Kuwaiti 41.4%, other

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21.4%, Asian (mostly

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) 35.3%, African 1%, other 0.7% (includes European, North American,

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, and Australian) (2018 est.) ;Languages *

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(official) * English spoken widely ;Religion * Muslim (official) 74.6% *

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18.2% * Other and Unspecified 7.2%

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