Kuwait: Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Kuwait's domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) rose 0.54 percentage points on 2024 (from 4.38% to 4.92%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.62 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 18.66 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 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 30.87 percentage points in 2015 and the biggest yearly fall was 85.99 percentage points in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 13.69 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 76% of the movement over 10 observed years.

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

How it compares

In 2025, Kuwait had the 98th highest value of the 100 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Kuwait in the 2025 ranking

• Ghana — 95th of 100: 7.91%
• Angola — 96th of 100: 6.58%
• Sierra Leone — 97th of 100: 5.5%
• South Sudan — 99th of 100: 3.24%
• Haiti — 100th of 100: 3.21%

What this measures

Domestic credit to private sector refers to financial resources provided to the private sector by financial corporations, such as through loans, purchases of nonequity securities, and trade credits and other accounts receivable, that establish a claim for repayment. For some countries these claims include credit to public enterprises. The financial corporations include monetary authorities and deposit money banks, as well as other financial corporations where data are available (including corporations that do not accept transferable deposits but do incur such liabilities as time and savings deposits). Examples of other financial corporations are finance and leasing companies, money lenders, insurance corporations, pension funds, and foreign exchange companies. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Limitations: Credit to the private sector may sometimes include credit to state-owned or partially state-owned enterprises.

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

All 63 values

Domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 3.1% (2020)
• Algeria — 19.59% (2025)
• Bahrain — 70.55% (2015)
• Djibouti — 25.16% (2025)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 25.84% (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 57.83% (2016)
• Iraq — 13.99% (2024)
• Israel — 72.47% (2025)
• Jordan — 71.31% (2025)
• Lebanon — 106.57% (2017)

More financial sector data for Kuwait

• DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$) — US$0.31 (2025)
• Net domestic credit (current LCU) — 46.3 billion (2025)
• Net foreign assets (current LCU) — 28.58 billion (2025)
• Broad money (current LCU) — 42.12 billion (2025)
• Broad money to total reserves ratio — 2.66 (2025)
• Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) — US$0.31 (2025)
• Domestic credit to private sector by banks (% of GDP) — 4.92% (2025)
• Claims on central government (annual growth as % of broad money) — 6.39% (2025)
• Monetary sector credit to private sector (% of GDP) — 4.92% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Kuwait's domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP)?

4.92% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1962?

It is down 1.45 percentage points from 6.37% in 1962. The highest value was 105.19% in 2016 and the lowest 3.54% in 2022.

How does Kuwait rank?

98th highest of 100 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) unusual for Kuwait?

In 2025, Kuwait's domestic credit to private sector (% of GDP) rose 0.54 percentage points on 2024 (from 4.38% to 4.92%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.62 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 18.66 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FS.AST.PRVT.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators Database, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 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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