The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) has a section on their website filled with statistics. Below, for example, is their list of the top 10 jobs in Kuwait:
Kuwaitis
1- Inspector of Government Department
2- Other authors (no idea what this is)
3- Military Army
4- Correspondent and passport representative
5- Secretary (Clerk)
6- Accounts Clerk – General
7- Other education specialists
8- Data Entry Device Operator
9- Public Writer
10- His own trade business
Expats
1- Servant
2- Private car driver
3- Ordinary laborer
4- Seller on the market
5- Cleaning worker for buildings and residential buildings
6- Manual cultivation worker
7- Electric worker on high voltage networks
8- Nurse
9- Light transport vehicle driver
10- Correspondents, baggage carriers and other parcels
I don’t think there is anything surprising in the list, I’m just surprised we actually have these lists. The PACI page also has other stats like the oldest ages. The oldest male in Kuwait is 115 years old (Kuwaiti) while the oldest female is 119 years old (also Kuwaiti). The oldest male expat is 113 while the oldest female expat is 118.
The most populous nationalities in Kuwait? They are:
1- India
2- Egypt
3- Bangladesh
4- Philipines
5- Syria
6- Saudi
7- Pakistan
8- Seri Lanka
9- Nepal
10- Jordan
Percentage of workers in the private sector?
4% Kuwaiti – 96% Expats
You can check out other interesting stats on the PACI website here.
24 replies on “Top 10 Jobs in Kuwait and Other Stats”
I think you mean populous – as in population wise, not popular.
yes! fixed
The most popular nationalities in Kuwait?
It should be Populous
Sri Lanka and Philippines 😉
4%! and 90% of that 4% is in banking
And the remaining 10% are the ones on the companies payroll (cause you have to have them) but sleeping at home waiting for the payday.
Now wait a minute, save a couple % of Kuwaitis as the expat wives of Kuwaitis who received citizenship that work (a great number as teachers) – most schools LOVE to hire “Expat Kuwaiti Wives” as teachers because they get the expat work ethic with the Kuwaiti quota point! (and yes, there are Kuwaitis with work ethics; they are just very hard to find in the teaching profession).
They might be easier to find if they didn’t pay garbage
I work in the private sector and always have but honestly when I look at people in public, getting similar salaries, working way less hours, with much better benefits it’s easy to see why this ratio is the way it is.
I blame Kuwaiti billionaire owners who are the cheapest people alive.
“Kuwaitis don’t work” = Kuwaitis won’t work unpaid overtime, past the working hours designed to be the legal maximum, for laughable salaries because “well the government pays you the rest”
Expat slave. This all I got from here.
Expat helping hand. There, sounds better.
Quite surprised at Saudi being number 6 on the most populous list.
dual citizenship maybe?
I thought that wasn’t allowed…
Other authors probably means Instagramers
This!
😂
The page Living in Kuwait on Facebook always copies your posts like they have written it without any citation or credit to you.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInKuwait/posts/2643705118985274
thanks reported it to facebook and another previous post and they had it removed and sent him a warning
according to guiness, the oldest living person is 116:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2019/3/worlds-oldest-person-confirmed-as-116-year-old-kane-tanaka-from-japan/
but i guess we have at least 2 women (119 year old kuwaiti and 118 year old expat) in kuwait that haven’t been verified by guiness.
Kuwait doesn’t even have anyone listed on the Guinness list of claims of super aging – these are people who ave claimed to be older than the 116 year old – current oldest verified person – but have not yet been verified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_claims
I don’t necessarily trust Kuwait records from 100+ years ago…my Kuwaiti FIL (deceased now) had no “original” birth certificate, and selected his own birthdate, and approximate year, which may be off – he was born during winter, so he picked Jan 1, 1933, but he might have been born in Nov/Dec 1932, or as late as March 1933. .. (his mother was illiterate and his father died at sea when FIL was just 1 year old, so they couldn’t ask him).
Military Contractors is not on there… I can’t trust that list. LOL
This list is what the company has visas/quotas for and puts you under. I’m Kuwaiti, in the private sector, in management and they put me in the govt. registration as “Sales Associate”
??????
Interesting to see that the population of Kuwaiti nationals has nearly tripled since 1990!
The oldest male expat is 113 while the oldest female expat is 118.
How is their residency renewed?? Is it even allowed?