Kuwait's population ages 15-64 (% of total population) was 78.85% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 3.07 percentage points from 75.78% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 78.85% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 75.38% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 75.78% | 2015 |
| Highest | 78.85% | 2025 |
| Lowest | 54.34% | 1971 |
| Average since 2016 | 76.86% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 60.3% | 1960 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Kuwait's population ages 15-64 (% of total population) rose 0.18 percentage points on 2024 (from 78.68% to 78.85%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.46 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.44 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below 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 1.55 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.83 percentage points in 1967. 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 upward, about 0.43 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 80% 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 3rd highest value of the 217 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Kuwait | 78.85% | 2025 |
| World | 65.19% | 2025 |
| High income | 64.53% | 2025 |
Closest to Kuwait in the 2025 ranking
- Qatar — 1st of 217: 83.3%
- United Arab Emirates — 2nd of 217: 82.23%
- Bahrain — 4th of 217: 77.56%
- Maldives — 5th of 217: 76.01%
- British Virgin Islands — 6th of 217: 75.81%
What this measures
Total population between the ages 15 to 64 as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
Limitations: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 66 values
| Year | Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 78.85 |
| 2024 | 78.68 |
| 2023 | 78.44 |
| 2022 | 78.04 |
| 2021 | 76.49 |
| 2020 | 75.38 |
| 2019 | 75.62 |
| 2018 | 75.68 |
| 2017 | 75.7 |
| 2016 | 75.75 |
| 2015 |
Population ages 15-64 (% of total population) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 55.01% (2025)
- Algeria — 63.27% (2025)
- Bahrain — 77.56% (2025)
- Djibouti — 66.22% (2025)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 63.17% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 69.4% (2025)
- Iraq — 60.52% (2025)
- Israel — 60.14% (2025)
- Jordan — 65.05% (2025)
- Lebanon — 63.97% (2025)
More health data for Kuwait
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 6.77% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 4.46% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 427,765 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 22.59% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 446,678 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 15.03% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 874,443 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 17.97% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 7.74% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, male (% of male population)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Kuwait's population ages 15-64 (% of total population)?
- 78.85% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is up 18.55 percentage points from 60.3% in 1960. The highest value was 78.85% in 2025 and the lowest 54.34% in 1971.
- How does Kuwait rank?
- 3rd highest of 217 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in population ages 15-64 (% of total population) unusual for Kuwait?
- In 2025, Kuwait's population ages 15-64 (% of total population) rose 0.18 percentage points on 2024 (from 78.68% to 78.85%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.46 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.44 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below 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 SP.POP.1564.TO.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division 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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