{"id":391656,"date":"2025-07-14T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=391656"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:08:23","slug":"gcc-countries-population-increases-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/gcc-countries-population-increases-36\/","title":{"rendered":"GCC countries\u2019 population increases 36%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The population of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries reached approximately 61.2 million people by the end of last year, representing a 36% increase, or more than 2.1 million people, compared to 2023, Qatari state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/qna.org.qa\/en\/news\/news-details?id=gcc-countries-population-hit-612-million-in-2024&amp;date=12\/07\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QNA<\/a> reported based on information from the GCC Statistical Center (GCC-Stat).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, the population of the bloc\u2019s countries has increased by approximately 7.6 million people since 2021, or 14.2%, reflecting a high rate of population growth following the slowdown experienced by some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total male population in the GCC reached approximately 38.5 million, constituting 62.8% of the total population, while women account for approximately 22.7 million people, or 37.2% of the total population. GCC-Stat data also indicates that the GCC countries host 0.7% of the world\u2019s population. The GCC is composed of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatar-surpasses-5-million-visitors-in-2024\/\">Qatar surpasses 5 million visitors in 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-391655\">\u00a9Fayez Nureldine\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey by the GCC Statistical Center shows that the six countries of the bloc have a combined population of 61.2 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":391655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066],"tags":[6189,12846],"class_list":{"0":"post-391656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-demographics","9":"tag-gcc-ar"},"wps_subtitle":"A survey by the GCC Statistical Center shows that the six countries of the bloc have a combined population of 61.2 million people.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}