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🇰🇼 Kuwait
State of Kuwait
KWT KW د.ك Kuwaiti dinar (KWD)
Every statistic we track for Kuwait — 112 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$54,303
80.3 yrs
6.54
0.13
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.6 | #140/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 34.8 | #106/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 3 | #138/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 5.2 | #120/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 286.4 | #53/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 3,369 | #85/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 100% | #6/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #60/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 99.7% | #5/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 168.4 | #14/209 | 2022 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 40.7% | #19/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 0.1 | #197/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 0.8 | #137/199 | 2024 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 4.3% | #146/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 40.5% | #74/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 7.6 | #131/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 80.3 | #26/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 81.2 | #21/186 | 2020 |
| Suicide Rate | 2.2 | #164/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 19.3% | #86/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 2.5% | #136/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 84 | #30/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 5% | #29/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.6 | #119/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 23.7 | #4/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 8,952 | #6/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 2.2% | #175/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 40.4 | #133/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 0.8 | #175/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 9.2 | #128/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 91.3% | #36/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 58.3% | #29/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.1 | #97/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 42% | #26/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 8.1% | #57/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 2.8 | #133/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 74.5 | #1/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 2.4 | #141/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 43% | #131/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.5 | #40/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #33/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.9 | #34/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #67/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.9 | #33/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.2 | #47/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.3 | #69/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.9 | #52/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 18.8% | #17/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 87.2% | #40/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 86.9% | #38/143 | 2018 |
| Desire to Emigrate | 16.1% | #8/8 | 2024 |
| Interpersonal Trust | 14% | #3/8 | 2024 |
| Signed a Petition | 23.6% | #36/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 32.4% | #8/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 6.4 | #11/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.6 | #26/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 70.8% | #84/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 49.7% | #121/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 6.7 | #8/153 | 2017 |
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