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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Kuwait
Index
Population: March 1992 estimate 1,175,000, of
whom 53
percent Kuwaiti; a decline from preinvasion population of
2,155,000 (mid-1990 estimate), of whom 27 percent Kuwaiti.
Education: Free and compulsory to age fourteen
for all
citizens and many foreigners from preschool through
university.
Adult literacy rate 73 percent in 1990.
Health: National comprehensive health care
system
extensive and continuing to expand and improve. Life
expectancy
in 1990 seventy-two years for males and seventy-six for
females.
Ethnic Groups: Most Kuwaitis are Arab. Foreign
population shifted from predominantly Arab to
predominantly Asian
in 1980s. After 1990-91 Iraqi occupation, composition of
foreign
population changed again, especially with exodus of about
370,000
of the 400,000 Palestinians.
Religion: Most Kuwaitis are Sunni Muslims. About
20
percent of citizens are Shia Muslims. Most foreigners are
also
Muslims, the majority Sunni.
Data as of January 1993
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