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--King of All the Franks 18:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Demographics of Kuwait
Hello,

I noticed that you edited this article to claim that the 7% (other) population was mostly Kurdish. I've never seen any academic references (or any other evidence, having been a long time resident, and now a frequent visitor there) to indicate that this was the case, and indeed most of the stateless population is Arab speaking. Can you point me at some references about the Kurdish population of Kuwait?

In any case, I've fixed the ethnic and religious proportions (those from the CIA World Factbook have been unchanged in 19 years, despite deportations, and massive immigration), to those based on the US State Department, Public Authority for Civil Information (Kuwait), and Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior sources.

Cheers, Arun 07:11, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Arun. Thank you for your message. Yes in Kuwait as I've heard there are many Kurds (immigrants) but since Kurds have not their own independent state they are mostly labelled Iranians, Turkish, Syrian, Iraqi etc... while they are a specific and independent ethnic group. I can cite this reference about kurds in Kuwait Thank you again. Take care. Mesopotamia 12:14, 8 January 2006 (UTC)