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Parallel with the rapid post-1945 expansion of the economy of Kuwait was an equally rapid process of demographic growth. Between the first reliable estimate of Kuwait's population early this century and the most recent census of population in 1965, the number of Kuwait’s inhabitants grew by 1,234 per cent (Table 9). While the numbers involved in this increase are comparatively small on a world scale, they assume mum greater significance within the narrow confines of the territory of Kuwait. Further, this process of demographic growth, representing a combination of in-migration coupled with extremely high rates of natural increase, introduced into Kuwait ethnic groups quite new to eastern Arabia. The majority of the new arrivals were derived from the Arab culture area, but significant numbers of people from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas are currently resident in Kuwait.
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Ffrench, G.E., Hill, A.G. (1971). Population Growth in Kuwait. In: Kuwait. Medizinische Länderkunde / Geomedical Monograph Series, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65172-4_6
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