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Kuwait

At a glance

  • Kuwait has a population of about 4.9M; its total GDP of $157.2B ranks #57 of 168 countries with data.
  • Its surface area of 16,665 km² is about 9% of the world median of 190,157 km².
  • Renewable energy consumption stands out most against the median: 0.1% — rank #164 of 169 countries with data.

Kuwait: all 46 metrics vs the world median

Metric Value Rank vs median
Population & land
Population 4.9M (2025) #125 / 169 median 11.5M · 42%
Population growth -0.7% (2025) #164 / 169 N/A
Urban population share 100.0% (2025) #1 / 169 median 63.8% · 1.6×
Population aged 65+ 3.2% (2025) #142 / 169 median 7.4% · 43%
Fertility rate 1.6 (2024) #116 / 169 median 2.1 · 74%
Birth rate 10.0‰ (2024) #122 / 169 median 16.0‰ · 63%
Death rate 1.5‰ (2024) #167 / 169 median 7.1‰ · 21%
Net migration 42.8K (2025) #23 / 169 N/A
Surface area 16,665 km² #158 / 176 median 190,157 km² · 9%
Population density derived 292/km² (2025) #18 / 169 median 73.2/km² · 4.0×
Economy
GDP (total) $157.2B (2025) #57 / 168 median $80.7B · 1.9×
GDP per capita $32,312 (2025) #35 / 168 median $6,834 · 4.7×
GNI per capita $41,110 (2024) #23 / 168 median $6,350 · 6.5×
GDP growth (annual) 2.7% (2025) #97 / 168 median 3.1% · 89%
Inflation rate 2.4% (2025) #104 / 162 median 3.3% · 71%
Unemployment rate 2.2% (2025) #151 / 168 median 5.1% · 42%
Gini index N/A N/A N/A
Poverty rate ($2.15/day) N/A N/A N/A
Trade & industry
Exports share of GDP 55.8% (2024) #29 / 163 median 35.0% · 1.6×
Imports share of GDP 38.2% (2024) #87 / 163 median 40.2% · 95%
Agriculture share of GDP 0.5% (2025) #164 / 168 median 7.2% · 7%
Manufacturing share of GDP 7.7% (2025) #121 / 165 median 11.2% · 69%
International tourist arrivals 2.2M (2020) #56 / 162 median 1.1M · 1.9×
Tourism receipts $524M (2020) #93 / 165 median $705M · 74%
Health & education
Life expectancy 84.6 years (2024) #1 / 169 median 73.8 years · 1.1×
Infant mortality 7.0‰ (2024) #114 / 166 median 13.1‰ · 54%
Under-five mortality 8.1‰ (2024) #115 / 166 median 15.8‰ · 51%
DPT immunization 99.0% (2024) #7 / 166 median 90.5% · 1.1×
Hospital beds 2.3 per 1,000 (2020) #78 / 167 median 2.0 per 1,000 · 1.2×
Health spending share of GDP 5.0% (2023) #108 / 165 median 6.5% · 76%
Secondary school enrollment 95.4% (2015) #63 / 167 median 90.5% · 1.1×
Education spending share of GDP 6.4% (2024) #16 / 165 median 4.1% · 1.6×
Society & living
Human Development Index 0.852 (2023) #45 / 165 median 0.754 · 1.1×
Internet users 100.0% (2025) #1 / 169 median 81.5% · 1.2×
Mobile subscriptions 167.7 per 100 (2023) #14 / 169 median 116.4 per 100 · 1.4×
Fixed broadband 1.0 per 100 (2023) #131 / 168 median 12.1 per 100 · 8%
Electricity access 100.0% (2024) #39 / 169 median 99.9% · 1.0×
Environment & security
CO₂ emissions per capita 23.7 t (2024) #2 / 165 median 2.6 t · 9.0×
CO₂ emissions (total) derived 116 Mt (2024) #39 / 165 median 21.3 Mt · 5.4×
Renewable electricity share 0.3% (2021) #162 / 169 median 34.1% · 1%
Renewable energy consumption 0.1% (2021) #164 / 169 median 26.9% · <1%
Forest area 0.4% (2023) #162 / 169 median 32.4% · 1%
Agricultural land 8.4% (2023) #151 / 169 median 41.7% · 20%
Arable land 0.4% (2023) #163 / 168 median 11.0% · 4%
PM2.5 exposure 62.3 µg/m³ (2023) #6 / 168 median 19.8 µg/m³ · 3.1×
Military spending 4.8% (2024) #14 / 157 median 1.8% · 2.7×

Ranks are value-descending and count only the countries that have data for that metric (#1 = highest value); N/A rows occupy no rank.

The median is the unweighted middle value across the countries with data (gold tick) — not a world average. Bars grow with the value: reaching the tick means matching the median, and a full bar means twice the median or more. The median value and this country's multiple are noted under each bar.

Kuwait's true-shape outline

Kuwait's border outline from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries — total surface area 16,665 km².

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).