World population/Kuwait
Asia
Population of Kuwait
5,102,771
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#128
world rank
0.06%
of world population
+1.29%
yearly change
+65,599
people this year
49,465
births a year
9,190
deaths a year
How the figure for Kuwait is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Kuwait at 5,102,771 on 1 July 2026, and projects 5,168,370 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Kuwait at number 128 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.06 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 49,465 births and 9,190 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
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