In comparison, the marriage rate in the GCC had amounted to 196,600 marriages in 2010, while the divorce rate reached 45,000 in that year.
The department indicted that that the birth rate in 2011 amounted to about 854,700 births, compared to 841,500 births in 2010.
Given that the number of deaths was nearly 127,000 in 2011 versus 124,600 in 2010 and 88,100 in 2000, the natural increase of the population in 2011 was about 215,400 people with a rate of 4.9 percent. The number of students in public and private education institutes in the GCC countries in 2011 reached about 8.8 million students, in exchange for 2.1 million students in 1980, an increase of 319 percent.
The total number of teachers in public and private education in the GCC countries for the academic year of 2011 reached about 827,600 in comparison to 814,600 in 2010.
