{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see WP:SDNONE --> {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Expatriates in Kuwait | population = 2.96 million (2022)<br />69% of Kuwait population | popplace = Kuwait City and suburbs | langs = English (''lingua franca''){{•}}Arabic{{•}}Hindi{{•}}Malayalam{{•}}Urdu{{•}}Pashto{{•}}Tagalog{{•}}Persian{{•}}Others | rels = Islam{{•}}Christianity{{•}}Hinduism{{•}}Others | related = Expatriates in the United Arab Emirates }}
There are a large number of '''expatriates in''' '''Kuwait''', with most residing in the capital of Kuwait City. Expatriates are primarily attracted by the employment opportunities. Foreign nationals account for approximately 70% of Kuwait's total population.
==West Asian populations== ===Armenians=== {{Main|Armenians in Kuwait}} {{See also|Armenians in the Middle East}} Before the Gulf War, the Armenian population reached its peak of 12,000.<ref name="ArmeniansInKuwait">{{Cite web |url=http://www.agbu.org/publications/article.asp?A_ID=111 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044202/http://www.agbu.org/publications/article.asp?A_ID=111 |url-status=dead |title=THE ARMENIANS OF KUWAIT: REBUILDING AFTER THE GULF WAR |archive-date=September 28, 2007}}</ref> But after the Iraqi invasions, the numbers of the Armenians in Kuwait greatly diminished to just 500<ref name="ArmeniansInKuwait"/> as they left the country and did not return.
A firm stated that as of 2015, about 5,000 Armenians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Bahrainis=== About 6,856 Bahraini citizens are living in Kuwait.<ref name=GCC_NAT>{{Cite web|url=https://gulfmigration.grc.net/kuwait-non-kuwaiti-gcc-population-by-country-of-citizenship-census-2021/|title=Kuwait: Non-Kuwaiti GCC population by country of citizenship (census 2021)|date=August 31, 2023}}</ref>
===Emiratis=== About 1,730 Emiratis are living in Kuwait.<ref name=GCC_NAT />
===Iraqis=== About 16,800 - 18,000 Iraqis are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170216230256/http://www.bq-magazine.com/economy/socioeconomics/2015/08/kuwaits-population-by-nationality Kuwait's population - by nationality] archived from [http://www.bq-magazine.com/economy/socioeconomics/2015/08/kuwaits-population-by-nationality the original]</ref>
===Jordanians=== About 33,000 Jordanians are living in Kuwait.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/12368/KU|title=Arab, Jordanian in Kuwait|first=Joshua|last=Project|website=joshuaproject.net}}</ref>
===Lebanese=== 106,000 Lebanese Nationals live in Kuwait, mainly Kuwait City.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
===Omanis=== About 3,634 Omanis are living in Kuwait.<ref name=GCC_NAT />
===Palestinians=== {{See also|Palestinian exodus from Kuwait (1990–91)}} There are around 70,000 Palestinian expats in Kuwait.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/8/6/palestine-kuwait-relations-ice-has-started-to-melt |title=Palestine-Kuwait relations: 'Ice has started to melt' |first=Megan |last=O'Toole |publisher=Al Jazeera}}</ref> However, a firm stated that as of 2015, about 10,000 Palestine nationals live in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Qataris=== About 1,731 Qataris are living in Kuwait.<ref name=GCC_NAT />
===Saudis=== 540,773 Saudi Arabian nationals live in Kuwait.,<ref name=WorldMigration>{{cite web |title=World Migration |url=https://www.iom.int/world-migration |website=International Organization for Migration |language=en |access-date=2016-01-24 |archive-date=2019-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501120652/https://www.iom.int/world-migration |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, a firm stated that about 132,533 Saudis are living in Kuwait.<ref name=GCC_NAT /> Both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are neighbours and part of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which means that the citizens of each GCC member can live and work in any of the six countries without a visa.
===Syrians=== {{main|Syrians in Kuwait}} There are around 161,000 Syrian expats in Kuwait. Syrians were among the first educated work force in Kuwait, the first Syrian expats immigrated to Kuwait in the 1960s.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180215210650/http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/syria/kuwait-extends-residency-permits-for-syrians-1.1577117 Kuwait extends residency permits for Syrians] archived from [http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/syria/kuwait-extends-residency-permits-for-syrians-1.1577117/ the original]</ref>
===Yemenis=== About 11,000 Yemenis are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Iranians=== {{See also|'Ajam of Kuwait}} In 2012, there were 45,000 Iranian expats according to the population census.<ref name="pop">{{cite web |url=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/kuwait-postpones-iran-spy-cell-trial-1.963532 |title=Kuwait postpones Iran spy cell trial |year=2012}}</ref> Iranians are heavily concentrated in the Bneid al-Gar suburb of Kuwait City. Most Iranians are employed in the private sector.<ref name="exp">{{cite web |url=http://www.q8nri.com/home/2012/05/21/expat-population-in-kuwait-drops-by-19-percent-in-one-year/ |title=Expat population in Kuwait drops by 19 percent in one year |year=2012 |access-date=2014-07-02 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924083439/http://www.q8nri.com/home/2012/05/21/expat-population-in-kuwait-drops-by-19-percent-in-one-year/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, there were 42,795 Iranians in Kuwait; 699 were employed in the public sector, 24,684 in the private sector and 16,577 were on dependent visas.<ref name="exp"/>
There are Iranian schools in Kuwait, all privately funded and located in the suburbs of Kuwait City,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad9330.html |title=Kuwait and Iran |publisher=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |date=1 August 1989}}</ref> for example the Iranian School of Kuwait.
===Turks=== {{main|Turks in Kuwait}} There are 4,000 Turkish expats in Kuwait.<ref>{{cite web |author=Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı |title=Kuveyt |url=http://www.diyih.gov.tr/article.php?article_id=61 |access-date=2009-10-28}}{{dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Most Turks work as barbers, engineers, businessmen and doctors.
==North African populations== ===Egyptians=== Egyptians are the second largest expat community in Kuwait, numbering more than 666,000 workers (December 2020).{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
===Sudanese=== About 7,000 Sudanese are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
==Sub-Saharan African populations==
===Ethiopians=== About 74,000 Ethiopians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Eritreans=== About 1,500 Eritreans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Kenyans=== About 400 Kenyans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Lesothoans=== About 7 Basotho are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Nigerians=== About 500 Nigerians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Senegalese=== About 170 Senegalese are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===South Africans=== About 1,000 South Africans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
==Central Asian populations==
===Afghanis=== About 15,000 Afghanis are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Kyrgyz=== About 14 Kyrgyz are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
==East Asian populations==
===Chinese=== About 5,000 Chinese are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===South and North Koreans=== {{further|Koreans in the Arab world}} Koreans in Kuwait first arrived in 1975 as employees of South Korean construction companies, although the two countries did not establish formal relations until June 1979.<ref name="CheongwadaeKuwait">{{harvnb|Cheongwadae|2007|loc=[http://16cwd.pa.go.kr/cwd/en/pub/president/cnt0202010602.html President Roh Moo-hyn's State Visit to the State of Kuwait]}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|MacKellar|1982}}</ref> By this time, Kuwait had already become the second-most popular Middle Eastern destination for Korean workers behind Saudi Arabia; by that time, 13,813 Korean workers had already come to Kuwait. However, Kuwait would soon lose the second-place position, being surpassed by Libya in 1981 and Iraq in 1982.<ref name="Seok">{{harvnb|Seok|1991|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=SVHnp2XSeioC&pg=PA56 56]–58}}</ref><ref name="Bonacich">{{harvnb|Bonacich|Light|1991|pp=105–106}}</ref> Koreans in Kuwait generally did not receive a welcome from or assimilate to the local society; in common with Indians, Filipinos, and Pakistanis, they were described as being at the bottom of the social structure, "ridiculed and stripped of their rights".<ref>{{harvnb|Mohammed|2003|p=21}}</ref> Nor did they spend much of their money locally; as meals and housing were provided for them in their work camps, it was estimated that they remitted 80% of their earnings back to South Korea.<ref>{{harvnb|Mohammed|2003|p=20}}</ref> In spite of these difficulties, between 1975 and 1985, 63,898 South Korean workers came to Kuwait, and as late as 1990, roughly 10,000 were estimated to remain.<ref name="Seok"/> Kuwait's only school for Korean nationals, the Kuwait Hangul School, was established in 1991.<ref>{{harvnb|NIIED|2007|loc=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181746/http://www.interedu.go.kr/edu_net/overseas/sch_informal_inform.htm?no=699&page=1&key= 쿠웨이트한글학교]}}</ref> Most South Koreans returned home in the following decade, and {{As of|2011|lc=on}}, only 1,000 South Korean nationals resided in the country. There were no known former South Korean nationals with Kuwaiti nationality; six were international students, and the remainder had other kinds of visas.<ref name="MOFAT2011Kuwait">{{harvnb|MOFAT|2011|p=292}}; {{harvnb|Cheongwadae|2007|loc=[http://16cwd.pa.go.kr/cwd/en/pub/president/cnt0202010602.html President Roh Moo-hyn's State Visit to the State of Kuwait]}} also states there may be as many as 4,000 North Korean workers in the country, which if correct, would give Kuwait the second-largest Korean population in the region</ref>
There was formerly a small contingent of South Korean soldiers in Kuwait, who numbered 170.<ref name="CheongwadaeKuwait"/> South Korean civilian employees from the United States Army's Camp Casey in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi-do have been deployed to bases in Kuwait, including Camp Arifjan, in support of the US Army.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.army.mil/article/50576/Casey_Exchange_employee_among_first_Koreans_to_serve_Soldiers_abroad/ |title=Casey Exchange employee among first Koreans to serve soldiers abroad |last=Choi |first=Jin |date=10 January 2011 |access-date=25 February 2012 |publisher=United States Army}}</ref> In 2005, a group calling itself Kuwait Mujahideen claimed to have killed a Korean national as part of an attack on a US Army base in Umm Al-Hayman near Al Ahmadi.<ref>{{citation |url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2517872 |last=Suh |first=Jung-min |title=Seoul denies Korean soldier was killed in Kuwait |date=16 January 2005 |access-date=25 February 2012 |periodical=JoongAng Ilbo}}</ref>
North Korean companies have established a greater presence in Kuwait recent years, and the government of South Korea estimated that there are roughly three or four thousand North Korean construction workers in the country {{As of|2004|lc=on}}.<ref name="CheongwadaeKuwait"/><ref>{{citation |title=About 3,000 North Korean Construction Workers in Kuwait: KOTRA |date=27 November 2004 |access-date=22 May 2009 |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5231876_ITM |periodical=YON – Yonhap News Agency of Korea}}</ref> Air Koryo, the national airline of North Korea, began operating weekly flights between Pyongyang and Kuwait City in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nknews.org/2014/03/north-koreas-air-koryo-resumes-kuwait-city-flight/ |first=Chad |last=O'Carroll |title=North Korea's Air Koryo resumes Pyongyang–Kuwait service |work=NKNews.org |date=27 March 2014 |access-date=1 October 2014}}</ref>
A firm stated that as of 2013, about 4,000 North Koreans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
A firm stated that as of 2015, about 1,500 South Koreans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Mongols=== About 20 Mongols are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Taiwanese=== About 30 - 50 Taiwanese are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
==South Asian populations==
===Bangladeshis=== About 181,265 Bangladeshis are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Indians=== {{main|Indians in Kuwait}} The Indian community in Kuwait includes Indian expats , as well as Kuwaiti citizens of Indian origin. According to the Indian ministry of external affairs, there are around 1,020,000 Indians as on 31 December 2020,<ref name=mae>{{cite web |title=Indian Community |url=http://www.mea.gov.in/Portal/ForeignRelation/Kuwait_December_2013.pdf |work=Ministry of External Affairs |access-date=21 December 2016 |date=December 2016}}</ref> constituting the largest expatriate community in Kuwait.<ref name="ABS Ancestry">{{Cite web |url=http://www.kuwaitstay.com/groups/indians-kuwait |title=Indians in Kuwait | KuwaitStay |date=December 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217140205/http://www.kuwaitstay.com/groups/indians-kuwait |archive-date=2009-12-17}}</ref>
There are 17 Indian schools in Kuwait affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). There were 164 Indian community Associations earlier registered with the Indian Embassy of Kuwait. Following introduction of a re-registration requirement, 106 of these Indian community Associations have once again registered with the Embassy and the number of registered Associations is growing at a steady pace.
===Nepalis=== {{main|Nepalis in Kuwait}} About 101,193 Nepalis are living in Kuwait.<ref name="migration-nepal-country-profile-2019">{{Cite web|date=2019-12-18|title=Migration in Nepal: A Country Profile 2019|url=https://publications.iom.int/books/migration-nepal-country-profile-2019|language=en}}</ref>
===Pakistanis=== {{main|Pakistanis in Kuwait}} The population of Pakistanis in Kuwait is around 100,000 (December 2020).{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} The former Pakistani ''chargé d'affaires'' in Kuwait has given a higher estimate of 150,000 in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NTk4MTcyNTA3 |first=Hussein |last=Al-Qarari |date=2009-03-29 |title=Pakistanis celebrate National Day in Kuwait |periodical=Kuwait Times |access-date=2012-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617012758/http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NTk4MTcyNTA3 |archive-date=2011-06-17}}</ref> There are many Pakistani schools in Kuwait.
===Sri Lankans=== There are 99,858 Sri Lankans living and working in Kuwait in 2016.<ref name="gulfnews">{{cite news |last1=Toumi |first1=Habib |title=7 nationalities make up 90% of foreigners in Kuwait |url=https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/kuwait/7-nationalities-make-up-90-of-foreigners-in-kuwait-1.1907439 |access-date=31 August 2020 |work=Gulf News |date=5 October 2016}}</ref>
==Southeast Asian and Oceanian populations==
===Australians=== The Australian community residing in Kuwait has 800 people working in various sectors, especially in the oil and gas sector. It is a qualified community that includes many professionals from various fields.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.alanba.com.kw/1223400 |title=بالفيديو السفيرة ميليسا كيلي 13 مليار دولار أسترالي إجمالي حجم الاستثمارات الكويتية في أستراليا |website=alanba.com.kw}}</ref>
===Burmese=== About 200 Burmese are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Cambodians=== About 47 Cambodians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Filipinos=== {{main|Filipinos in Kuwait}} There are roughly 241,000 (as of December 2020) Filipinos in Kuwait.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} Most are migrant workers,<ref name=amnesty>{{Cite web |url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=68858 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209230026/http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=68858 |url-status=dead |title=Kuwait grants amnesty to illegal aliens |archive-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref> and approximately 60% of Filipinos in Kuwait are employed as domestic workers.
In 2011, Kuwait was the sixth-largest destination of Overseas Filipino Workers, with 65,000 hired or rehired in the nation in 2011, and accordingly Kuwait has been an important source of remittances back to the Philippines, with over $105 million USD being remitted in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.senate.gov.ph/publications/AG%202012-04%20-%20OFW.pdf |title=Overseas Filipino Workers At A Glance |date=May 2012 |publisher=Senate of the Philippines |access-date=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="KCIC">{{cite web |url=https://expatcrossing.com/contribution-rose-from-ofw-to-the-philippine-economy |title=Contribution Rose from OFWs to the Philippine Economy |date=May 2021 |publisher=Expat Crossing |access-date=2021-05-16 |archive-date=2021-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516082640/https://expatcrossing.com/contribution-rose-from-ofw-to-the-philippine-economy/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Nine Filipino banks have correspondent accounts with banks in Kuwait to allow for remittance transfers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smc.org.ph/MAPID/MAPID%20CD/Italy%20pdf%20file/012.III.3%20ANNEX%201%20Philippine%20Banks%20with%20Remittance%20Network%20Abroad.pdf |title=Philippine Banks With Remittance Networks Abroad |publisher=Scalabrini Migration Center |pages=5 |access-date=6 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309054437/http://www.smc.org.ph/MAPID/MAPID%20CD/Italy%20pdf%20file/012.III.3%20ANNEX%201%20Philippine%20Banks%20with%20Remittance%20Network%20Abroad.pdf |archive-date=9 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
There is a Filipino Worker's Resource Center (FWRC) located in Jabriya, and it provides refuge for Filipino workers in Kuwait who have "[experienced] various forms of maltreatment from their employers such as fatigue, non-payment of salaries,"<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/184406/reftab/96/t/Seventy-distressed-HSWs-repatriated-to-Philippines/Default.aspx |title=Seventy Distressed HSWs Repatriated To Philippines |date=12 June 2012 |work=Arab Times |access-date=5 January 2013}}</ref> as well as "lack of food [and] physical, verbal and sexual abuse".<ref name="Arab2">{{cite news |url=http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/170034/reftab/96/t/131-distressed-Pinoys-fly-home-to-Philippines/Default.aspx |title=131 Distressed Pinoys Fly Home To Philippines |date=7 June 2012 |work=Arab Times |access-date=5 January 2013}}</ref> Through assistance from the FWRC, the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, and Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration, hundreds of Filipinos in Kuwait have been repatriated to the Philippines due to these issues.<ref name="Arab2"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/274878/pinoyabroad/news/dfa-31-ofws-repatriated-from-kuwait-400-more-to-come-home-soon |title=DFA: 31 OFWs repatriated from Kuwait, 400 more to come home soon |date=20 September 2012 |publisher=GMA News |access-date=5 January 2013}}</ref>
Kuwait had the largest number of voters registered under the Overseas Absentee Voting Act eligible to vote in the 2013 Philippine general election.<ref name="Arab1">{{cite news |url=http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/182646/reftab/96/t/Kuwait-Filipinos-top-OAV-globally/Default.aspx |title=Kuwait Filipinos Top OAV Globally |date=1 May 2012 |work=Arab Times |access-date=5 January 2013}}</ref>
===Indonesians=== 28,954 Indonesians reside in Kuwait as of 2020.<ref name="WNI di Luar Negeri">{{cite web |url=https://www.kpu.go.id/dmdocuments/Data_Agregat_WNI.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120132408/http://kpu.go.id/dmdocuments/Data_Agregat_WNI.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |title=Data Agregat WNI yang Tercatat di Perwakilan RI |language=id |publisher=General Elections Commission |year=2019 |access-date=2022-02-24}}</ref>
===Malaysians=== About 300 Malaysians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Vietnamese=== About 400 Vietnamese are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
==North and South American populations==
===Americans=== About 30,000 United States nationals live in Kuwait.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Etheridge |first=Jamie |title=Americans in Kuwait: US Ambassador Discusses how Embassy Serves US Citizens in Kuwait |url=https://kw.usembassy.gov/americans-in-kuwait-us-ambassador-discusses-how-embassy-serves-us-citizens-in-kuwait/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804022830/https://kw.usembassy.gov/americans-in-kuwait-us-ambassador-discusses-how-embassy-serves-us-citizens-in-kuwait/ |archive-date=4 August 2020 |website=U.S. Embassy in Kuwait|date=21 July 2020 }}</ref>
===Argentinians=== About 100 Argentinians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Brazilians=== About 300 Brazilians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Canadians=== An estimated 7,000 Canadians reside in Kuwait and work in important sectors such engineering, finance, government, academia, health, and the oil industry.
In 2006, Canadian servicemen who fought in the first Gulf War were given the Liberation of Kuwait Medal by Kuwait. Thirty Canadian soldiers who served in the first Gulf War were honored by the Kuwaiti Embassy in Canada in February 2020.
In 2019, there were approximately 450 Kuwaiti students pursuing their studies in Canada, mostly in medicine. In 2015, Algonquin College became the first Canadian college in Kuwait.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-06 |title=Canada-Kuwait relations |url=https://www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/kuwait-koweit/relations.aspx?lang=eng |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Global Affairs Canada}}</ref>
===Guyanese=== About 2 Guyanese are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Mexicans=== About 120 - 150 Mexicans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Nicaraguans=== About 40 Nicaraguans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Peruvians=== About 10 Peruvians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Venezuelans=== About 400 Venezuelans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
==European populations==
===Britons=== About 4,000 Britons live in Kuwait.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230206070806/https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/kuwait Kuwait travel advice - GOV.UK] archived from [https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/kuwait the original]</ref>(Kuwait was a British Protectorate from 1899 to 1961.)
===French=== About 2,000 French are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Czech=== About 50 Czech are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Danes=== About 200 Danes are living in Kuwait. {{Blockquote |text="There are some Danes married to Kuwaitis, and Danes working in several high-level positions. There are people in the oil, hospitality, pharmaceutical and bakery sectors. Did you know that the first excavation on Failaka Island in Kuwait was headed by a Dane in the 1950s? Many artifacts were uncovered there, and we traced the origins of the first settlement," |author=Ole E. Moseby, Danish ambassador of Kuwait<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://kuwaittimes.com/denmark-woos-kuwait-to-invest-in-renewable-energy-life-science-tech |title=Denmark woos Kuwait to invest in renewable energy, life science tech |date=June 23, 2021 |website=kuwaittimes}}</ref> }}
===Germans=== About 500 - 600 Germans are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Greeks=== About 250 Greeks are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Hungarians=== About 300 Hungarians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Poles=== About 300 Poles are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Romanians=== About 800 Romanians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Slovaks=== About 100 - 150 Slovaks are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Slovenes=== About <50 Slovenes are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Spaniards=== About 96 Spaniards are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Swiss=== About 105 Swiss are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
===Ukrainians=== About 300 Ukrainians are living in Kuwait.<ref name=nat />
==See also== * Demographics of Kuwait
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