Kuwaiti population numbers 2.175 million

The General Authority of Civil Information issued its statistics for the third quarter of 1997, which showed that the Kuwaiti population had reached 2.175 million, the same number registered in 1990. This number is expected to increase by the end of this year although the government has adopted programs to keep the number from rising.

The rate of population growth during the third quarter of the year registered an increase of 1.01%. It registered an increase of 1.17% during the second quarter of the year, while it registered an increase of 1.62% during the first quarter of the year. Thus the rate of increase during the first three quarters reached a total of 3.8%, for a yearly rate of 5%, though it had been projected to decrease this year.

The number of the Kuwaiti citizens reached about 753,000 which represents 34.6% of the total population. The ratios of the Kuwaiti male and female citizens represent 49.5% and 55.5%, simultaneously. The number of the non Kuwaiti nationals are 1.422 million. The number of the male non-Kuwaiti nationals are about 955,000 persons which represent about 67.2% compared to 466,000 female nationals.