Kuwait
State of Kuwait
- Region
- Asia · Western Asia
- Capital
- Kuwait City
- Population
- 4,865,298 (2025)
- Government
- constitutional monarchy (emirate)
- Currency
- Kuwaiti dinar (KWD)
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Spoken languages
- Arabic (official), English widely spoken
- Written scripts
- Arabic
- Area
- 17,818 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- GCC, IMF, Arab League, OIC, OPEC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Iraq , Saudi Arabia
Political stability
71 / 100
Economic stability
69 / 100
Population stability
16 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- crude petroleum, refined petroleum, natural gas, hydrocarbons, plastics (2023)
- Key imports
- cars, natural gas, garments, broadcasting equipment, packaged medicine (2023)
- Natural resources
- petroleum, fish, shrimp, natural gas
- Primary route
- Gulf and Red Sea hubs (Jebel Ali, Jeddah) on Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Suez Canal corridor to the Mediterranean
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The Fuel Dock Becomes the Next Shipping Chokepoint
Large-vessel bunker constraints are moving from refinery systems into global freight economics — a 218,000 b/d fuel-oil deficit, 12–15-day Singapore lead times, and the routes, industries and carriers that pay first.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.