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Kuwait
Kuwait is a country. The capital city is Kuwait City, located in the Western Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 17,820 km², a population of 4,853,420 people and uses the currency Kuwaiti dinar. The Emir is Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
Key facts
- currency: Kuwaiti dinar
- capital city: Kuwait City
- region: Western Asia
- continent: Asia
- land area: 17,820 km²
- population: 4,853,420 people
- political leader: Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Emir)
Classified as: place
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Location on a map: 29°50′N, 45°75′E
Environment
Kuwait is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Western Asia and 194 countries in our database.
- Agricultural land: 1,500.00 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 0.00 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 111.63 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
- Electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from natural gas sources: 36.42 % of total
- Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from oil sources: 63.58 % of total
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.00 % of total
- Net energy imports: -391.06 % of energy use
- Fertility rate: 2.09 births per woman
- Forest area: 62 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 93.69 % of total
- Greenhouse gas emissions (co2, ch4, n2o, hfcs, pfcs, sf6): 167.92 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 30.50
- Methane emissions: 39.48 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 1.01 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 1,885,194 people
- Male population: 2,968,226 people
- Renewable energy consumption: 0.10 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 16,647.65 km²
- Rural population: 0 people
- Urban land area: 772.94 km²
- Urban population: 4,853,420 people
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 3.91 % of total population
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Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Kuwait
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Politics
- Armed forces personnel: 25,000 people
- Democracy score: 3.85
- Democracy type: Authoritarian
- Individuals using the internet: 99.75 % of population
- Military expenditure: 4.90 % of GDP
- Net migration: 50,008 people
- Press freedom: 2.31
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 3.08 %
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Business
- Expense: 34.55 % of GDP
- Gdp: 163,704,878,875.85 current US$
- Inflation: 3.64 annual %
- Self-employed workers: 1.95 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 1.49 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 2.13 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 1.25 % of total employment
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Health
- Birth rate: 9.73 per 1,000 people
- Death rate: 2.61 per 1,000 people
- Health expenditure per capita: 1,860.78 current US$
- Health expenditure: 5.78 % of GDP
- Hospital beds: 2.35 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 80
- Suicide mortality rate: 2.90 per 100,000 population
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Sports
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Culture
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Research
Geographical distribution of universities in Kuwait by total students
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In literature
There are 81 books written about Kuwait in the database
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