Demographics of Kuwait

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Demographics of Kuwait
Population pyramid of Kuwait in 2020
Population	3,068,155 (2022 est.)
Growth rate	1.17% (2022 est.)
Birth rate	17.78 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Death rate	2.25 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Life expectancy	79.13 years
• male	77.67 years
• female	80.65 years
Fertility rate	2.24 children born/woman (2022 est.)
Infant mortality rate	7.43 deaths/1,000 live births
Net migration rate	-3.87 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)
Age structure
0–14 years	19.49%
15–64 years	76.71%
65 and over	3.80%
Sex ratio
Total	1.37 male(s)/female (2022 est.)
At birth	1.05 male(s)/female
Under 15	1.09 male(s)/female
65 and over	0.66 male(s)/female
Nationality
Nationality	Kuwaiti
Language
Official	Arabic

This is a demography of the population of Kuwait (Arabic: 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.^[1]