Majority of the Bahrainis under the age of 25
Bahrain, Culture, 3/31/1999

Statistics released by the central bureau for statistics in Bahrain carried out during 1998 and published on Tuesday in Manama said that 60% of the Bahraini people are under 25 in comparison with the 40% of the non-Bahraini people who live in the country.

The statistics revealed that 63.3% of the foreigners' ages raged between 2 and 39 and that the total population of the country is 642,972, a figure which represents an increase of 3.6%, representing an increase of 22,594 persons over the figures of 1997.

The statistics added that number of the Bahraini people reached 391,019 in 1998 and increased by 2.9% over the figures of 1997 when the population numbered 379,953.

The number of foreigners in 1998 was 251,953, representing an increase of 4.8% over the figures of 1997.

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