Kuwait: Adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI)

Key figures

Over five years it is up 0.01 percentage points from 0.16% in 2014. Since 1990 it is down 0.02 percentage points from 0.19% in 1990. The World Bank has no value for 3 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2019, Kuwait's adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) rose 0 percentage points on 2018 (from 0.17% to 0.17%).

Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2018), the average change was −0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.03 percentage points in 1999 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.08 percentage points in 1992. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2011 to 2019 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 14% of the movement over 9 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

Closest to Kuwait in the 2019 ranking

• Turkmenistan — 1st of 3: 0.51%
• Cuba — 3rd of 3: 0.13%

What this measures

Particulate emissions damage is the damage due to exposure of a country's population to ambient concentrations of particulates measuring less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5), ambient ozone pollution, and indoor concentrations of PM2.5 in households cooking with solid fuels. Damages are calculated as foregone labor income due to premature death. Estimates of health impacts from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 are for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2013. Data for other years have been extrapolated from trends in mortality rates. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross National Income (GNI) which is the total income earned by all residents within an economic territory during an accounting period. It is equal to gross domestic product plus earned income receivable from abroad minus earned income payable abroad.

Limitations: Labor productivity losses, as calculated within the framework of adjusted net savings, represent only part of the economic costs of air pollution and should be interpreted as a lower-end estimate.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 27 values

Adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 2.14% (2020)
• Algeria — 0.37% (2021)
• Bahrain — 0.2% (2020)
• Djibouti — 1.96% (2021)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 0.67% (2021)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 0.36% (2021)
• Iraq — 0.58% (2021)
• Israel — 0.09% (2021)
• Jordan — 0.26% (2021)

More economic policy & debt data for Kuwait

• Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$51.74 billion (2025)
• Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$40.65 billion (2025)
• GDP (current US$) — US$157.21 billion (2025)
• GDP (current LCU) — 48.18 billion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$32,312 (2025)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 9,902 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$193.99 billion (2024)
• GNI (current LCU) — 59.49 billion (2024)
• GNI per capita (current LCU) — 12,148 (2024)
• General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$41.5 billion (2024)

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Questions people ask

What is Kuwait's adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI)?

0.17% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1990?

It is down 0.02 percentage points from 0.19% in 1990. The highest value was 0.21% in 1991 and the lowest 0.13% in 1993.

Is the latest change in adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) unusual for Kuwait?

In 2019, Kuwait's adjusted savings, particulate emission damage (% of GNI) rose 0 percentage points on 2018 (from 0.17% to 0.17%). Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2018), the average change was −0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Where does this data come from?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.ADJ.DPEM.GN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Global Burden of Disease 2013 study, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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