Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
50.4%
-1.6 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
4.44%
-9.1 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
6.44%
+0.6 pts since 1996
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
14.6%
of GDP · -20 pts since 1995
Population · 2025
4.9m
189.3% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Kuwait yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 1.6% to 5.4% of GDP between 2000 and 2020, then fell to 4.4% by 2023.
Defence fell from 13.6% to 3.0% of GDP between 1995 and 2008, then rose to 4.7% by 2025.
Education fell from 5.9% to 3.8% of GDP between 1996 and 2006, then rose to 6.4% by 2024.
Total spending fell from 52.0% to 28.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2005, then rose to 50.4% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 34.9% to 14.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2025.
Population grew from 1.7 million in 1995 to 4.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 6.2 million by 2050.