Name | Kuwait |
Long name | State of Kuwait |
Population (source) | census |
Population (people) | 2,213,403 (2005) |
Constitutional form | Constitutional monarchy |
Drives on | Right |
Head of state authority | Executive |
Main continent | Asia |
Number of airports | 7 |
Airports - with paved runways | 4 |
Airports - with unpaved runways | 3 |
Area (m²) | 17,818 |
Birth rate (births/1,000 population) | 21 |
Calling code | |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%) | |
Current Account Balance (US$) | 70,850,002,944 |
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population) | 2 |
Debt - external (Billion US$) | 42 |
Economic aid donor (Billion $) | |
Electricity consumption (billion kWh) | 43 |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person) | 16,090 |
Electricity exports (million kWh) | 0 |
Electricity imports (million kWh) | 0 |
Electricity production (billion kWh) | 50 |
Exports (Billion $) | 104 |
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$) | 42,200 |
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $) | 156 |
GDP real growth rate (%) | 8 |
Gross national income (US$) | |
Human Development Index | 1 |
Health expenditures (% of GDP) | 7 |
Heliports | 4 |
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%) | 0 |
HIV AIDS deaths | |
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS | |
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population) | |
Capital city | Kuwait city |
Currency | Kuwaiti dinar |
Imports (Billion $) | 22 |
Industrial production growth rate (%) | 9 |
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births) | 8 |
Inflation rate consumer prices (%) | 5 |
Internet hosts | 2,730 |
Internet tld | .kw |
Internet users | 1,100,000 |
Investment (gross fixed) (%) | 26 |
Iso 3166 code | KW |
ISO CODE | KWT |
Labor force | 2,243,000 |
Life expectancy at birth (years) | 77 |
Literacy (%) | 93 |
Manpower available for military service | 1,002,480 |
Manpower fit for military service | 840,912 |
Manpower reaching militarily age annually | 17,653 |
Is democracy | Yes |
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$) | 100,900,003,840 |
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births) | 14 |
Merchant marine | 38 |
Military expenditures percent of GDP | 5 |
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters) | 12,380,000,256 |
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person) | 4,678 |
Natural gas exports (cubic meters) | 0 |
Natural gas imports (cubic meters) | 890,000,000 |
Natural gas production (cubic meters) | 11,489,999,872 |
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters) | 1,797,999,951,872 |
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population) | 0 |
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%) | 29 |
Oil consumption (bbl/day) | 354,000 |
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people) | 134 |
Oil exports (bbl/day) | 2,127,000 |
Oil imports (bbl/day) | 0 |
Oil production (bbl/day) | 2,450,000 |
Oil proved reserves (bbl) | 103,999,995,904 |
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population) | 2 |
Population below poverty line (%) | |
Population census (people) | 2,213,403 (2005) |
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer) | 149 |
Population estimate (people) | 4,044,500 (2014) |
Population growth rate (%) | 2 |
Public debt (% of GDP) | 7 |
Railways (km) | |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$) | 25,930,000,384 |
Roadways (km) | 5,749 |
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$) | 48,390,000,640 |
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$) | 2,764,000,000 |
Telephones main lines in use | 566,300 |
Telephones main lines in use per capita | 21 |
Telephones mobile cellular | 4,400,000 |
Telephones mobile cellular per capita | 164 |
Total fertility rate (children born/woman) | 3 |
Unemployment rate (%) | 2 |
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%) | |
Waterways (km) | |
Valley | |
Helicopter | |
Canyon | |
Artillery | |
Crater | |
Religion | |
Continent | Asia |
Border | Frontière entre l'Arabie saoudite et le Koweït |
Plateau | |
Marsh | |
Demonym | kuwaiti |