{"id":2303,"date":"2025-02-13T05:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T05:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2025-02-13T05:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T05:14:17","slug":"kuwaits-population-nears-5-million-by-end-of-2024-latest-data-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/2025\/02\/13\/kuwaits-population-nears-5-million-by-end-of-2024-latest-data-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait\u2019s Population Nears 5 Million by End of 2024, Latest Data Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), Kuwait&#8217;s total population reached 4,987,826 by the end of 2024. The latest statistics highlight that 17% of the population is under 15 years old, while those aged between 15 and 64 years make up 80%. Only 3% of the population falls into the 65 and above age group.<\/p><p>Kuwaitis account for 31% of the total population, while Indians make up 20%, making them the largest expatriate community, followed by Egyptians at 13%. Among Kuwaiti citizens, 32% are under 15 years old, 64% fall within the 15 to 64-year age group, and 5% are 65 years or older. Gender distribution among Kuwaitis is nearly balanced, with females at 51% and males at 49%.<\/p><p>Regarding employment, Kuwait had a total workforce of 2,247,029 in both the public and private sectors. The public sector employed 517,022 individuals (23%), while the private sector accounted for 1,730,007 workers (77%). Kuwaitis formed the majority of government employees at 77.52%, while among non-Kuwaiti government workers, Egyptians comprised 7.25%, followed by Indians at 4.42%.<\/p><p>In the private sector, Indians were the largest workforce at 31.1%, followed by Egyptians at 25.4%, whereas Kuwaitis represented only 4.1% of private-sector employees.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), Kuwait&#8217;s total population reached 4,987,826 by the end of 2024. The latest statistics highlight that 17% of the population is under 15 years old, while those aged between 15 and 64 years make up 80%. Only 3% of the population falls into the 65 and above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kuwait-en"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}