A law was passed in 2013 to grant citizenship to 4,000 of this population to resolve the problem, although the government has stated that only a third of the Bidoon people would even qualify for naturalization as it believes the rest do indeed hold other nationalities but have destroyed their documents.
It's believed these people are Arabs who migrated from Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq and these other states do not consider them nationals, either. This group is classified as illegal residents who are attempting to claim Kuwait citizenship. Meanwhile, the presence of the Bidoon, a stateless people numbering over 100,000, is also viewed as an issue. Kuwait considers its high level of non-nationals a problem and has announced plans to reduce this number. Kuwait's population is difficult to estimate given the number of non-nationals, and preliminary results of the 2011 census showed the population at 3.1 million, including 1.1 million citizens and 2.0 million non-nationals. The Kuwait government rarely grants citizenship to foreigners to maintain status quo. Kuwait Population GrowthĮxpatriates account for about 70% of Kuwait's population, including 1.1 million Arab expatriates and 1.4 million Asian expatriates. If trends continue, it's projected that Kuwait will have a population of 5.9 million by 2050.
Kuwait currently has an annual population growth rate of 4.0% per year, although their population growth has remained hard to track and fluctuates a great deal.
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