STATISTICS ON KUWAITI WOMEN MARRIED TO EXPATS

  • 09/11/2022

Kuwait City : Official statistics revealed that the total number of children of Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaiti men is 15,100 as of the end of June 2022, at a time when the issue of naturalisation is being widely discussed in the country, particularly for the categories of non-Kuwaiti wives and children of Kuwaiti women married to foreigners.


The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) reports that there are 19,429 Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaitis. There are 17,429 Kuwaiti women married to Western nationals, 688 married to Asian nationals, 379 married to North American nationals, 246 married to European nationals, 57 married to South American nationals, 49 married to African nationals, and 39 married to Australian nationals. 

According to statistics, there are 4,329 Kuwaiti women who are married to non-Kuwaiti men and do not have children. Kuwaiti women with one child number 2,552, 2,571 with two children, and 2,519 with three children.

Approximately 2,282 Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaiti men have four children, approximately 1,915 have five children, 1,249 have six children, 894 have seven children, 527 have eight children, 324 have nine children, and 267 have more than nine children.

As of mid-2021, the total number of Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaiti men had reached 20,128.

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