🇰🇼 Kuwait
State of Kuwait
Every statistic we track for Kuwait — 133 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$54,303
81.2 yrs
6.54
0.13
Most similar countries
By profile across every shared indicator (global percentiles).
Palestine/Gaza · 84% Zanzibar · 82% 🇶🇦 Qatar · 81% 🇴🇲 Oman · 80% 🇸🇽 Sint Maarten · 80%
More Western Asia countries
Compare Kuwait with its neighbours across the same 133 indicators.
🇦🇲 Armenia 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇧🇭 Bahrain 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇮🇱 Israel 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇴🇲 Oman 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇾 Syria 🇹🇷 Türkiye 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 🇾🇪 Yemen
All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.6 | #140/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.2 | #122/172 | 2023 |
| 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% | #55/214 | 2024 |
| Internet Users | 99.7% | #5/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 168.4 | #14/209 | 2022 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 5% | #29/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.6 | #119/146 | 2020 |
| TIMSS Mathematics, Grade 4 | 382 | #54/55 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Mathematics, Grade 8 | 398.7 | #35/41 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Science, Grade 4 | 373.3 | #54/55 | 2023 |
| TIMSS Science, Grade 8 | 419.7 | #33/41 | 2023 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 23.7 | #4/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 8,952 | #6/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 44.4 | #95/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 2.2% | #175/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 40.4 | #133/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Global Peace Index | 1.6 | #130/160 | 2025 |
| 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 | #101/193 | 2026 |
| 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 | 2.3 | #151/193 | 2026 |
| 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 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.