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Kuwait — Population
Population, Total for Kuwait, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.87 million
Population, Total · people · +1464.1% since 1960
Population for Kuwait was 4.87 million in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 4.90 million in 2024. The lowest was 311,060 in 1960 (about 15.6× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 4.32% per year.
Kuwait ranks 127 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 59%. The median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan is 11.52 million, so Kuwait sits below it. It peaked in 2024 and has fallen 1% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 27%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.87 million
First (1960)
311,060
Change
+1464.1%
Highest
4.90 million
in 2024
Lowest
311,060
in 1960
Average
2.12 million
Annual growth (CAGR)
4.32%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | people |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4,865,298 |
| 2024 | 4,897,263 |
| 2023 | 4,853,420 |
| 2022 | 4,589,643 |
| 2021 | 4,360,865 |
| 2020 | 4,400,267 |
| 2019 | 4,442,316 |
| 2018 | 4,323,515 |
| 2017 | 4,154,812 |
| 2016 | 4,004,096 |
| 2015 | 3,834,574 |
| 2014 | 3,665,876 |
Reading this correctly. Total population based on the de facto definition, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. Figures are in people. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.POP.TOTL — Population, Total. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.