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Population in Kuwait compared to Mexico: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Kuwait was 4,973,861 in 2024 vs 130,861,007 people in Mexico in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Kuwait's population is 5,128,257 people compared to 132,790,957 in Mexico.

Population statistics:

  • Mexico's population is 25.9 times bigger than Kuwait's.
  • Kuwait is ranked the 127th most populous country in the world, while Mexico is the 11th.
  • The countries together account for 1.67% of the world: 0.06% for Kuwait vs 1.61% for Mexico.
  • For the last 10 years, Kuwait has had an average growth rate of +3.25% per year vs +0.92% in Mexico.
  • Since 2005, the population of Kuwait has increased from 2.24M people to 5.13M (129.3% growth), while Mexico has grown from 106M to 133M (25.5% growth).
  • Kuwait is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 9.68M people compared to the peak of 150M people in 2058 for Mexico.

Kuwait vs Mexico: live population counter

Kuwait Mexico
Current population
5128257
132790957
Population rank 127/197 11/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 1.61%
One net population change
4.36 minutes
28.1 seconds
One birth every
10.5 minutes
15.5 seconds
One death every
1.18 hours
39.5 seconds
One migration net change every
8.53 minutes
5.03 minutes
Annual migration change +61,624 -104,581
Daily growth/decline +330 +3,072
Annual growth/decline +120,441 +1,121,248
Annual growth/decline rate +2.48% +0.86%
Population growth rate rank 29/197 113/197

Kuwait and Mexico: population history and growth rate by year chart

Kuwait
Population

Growth rate
Mexico
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Kuwait Mexico Kuwait Mexico
1960 311,060 36,724,615 - -
1961 345,945 37,890,118 11.2% 3.17%
1962 384,995 39,129,200 11.3% 3.27%
1963 427,694 40,424,065 11.1% 3.31%
1964 473,115 41,772,049 10.6% 3.33%
1965 521,174 43,174,477 10.2% 3.36%
1966 572,590 44,629,106 9.87% 3.37%
1967 628,089 46,129,608 9.69% 3.36%
1968 687,716 47,668,303 9.49% 3.34%
1969 749,452 49,233,194 8.98% 3.28%
1970 809,114 50,814,953 7.96% 3.21%
1971 865,076 52,412,558 6.92% 3.14%
1972 920,352 54,030,168 6.39% 3.09%
1973 977,654 55,667,284 6.23% 3.03%
1974 1,038,346 57,320,149 6.21% 2.97%
1975 1,104,863 58,982,400 6.41% 2.9%
1976 1,178,711 60,645,512 6.68% 2.82%
1977 1,258,023 62,308,493 6.73% 2.74%
1978 1,340,319 63,979,046 6.54% 2.68%
1979 1,423,514 65,648,865 6.21% 2.61%
1980 1,504,782 67,300,334 5.71% 2.52%
1981 1,583,426 68,892,108 5.23% 2.37%
1982 1,662,480 70,433,260 4.99% 2.24%
1983 1,744,295 71,971,240 4.92% 2.18%
1984 1,820,688 73,506,846 4.38% 2.13%
1985 1,894,242 75,043,414 4.04% 2.09%
1986 1,972,520 76,585,637 4.13% 2.06%
1987 2,052,994 78,136,651 4.08% 2.03%
1988 2,134,707 79,695,531 3.98% 2%
1989 2,217,468 81,247,182 3.88% 1.95%
1990 1,684,819 82,820,170 -24% 1.94%
1991 1,351,399 84,430,572 -19.8% 1.94%
1992 1,634,961 86,044,809 21% 1.91%
1993 1,672,151 87,653,807 2.27% 1.87%
1994 1,664,361 89,259,205 -0.47% 1.83%
1995 1,681,513 90,862,455 1.03% 1.8%
1996 1,730,246 92,452,702 2.9% 1.75%
1997 1,787,683 94,021,207 3.32% 1.7%
1998 1,844,302 95,575,245 3.17% 1.65%
1999 1,900,030 97,115,707 3.02% 1.61%
2000 1,954,709 98,625,552 2.88% 1.55%
2001 2,008,121 100,099,099 2.73% 1.49%
2002 2,059,974 101,548,624 2.58% 1.45%
2003 2,109,881 102,978,515 2.42% 1.41%
2004 2,157,320 104,394,131 2.25% 1.37%
2005 2,236,788 105,811,504 3.68% 1.36%
2006 2,364,733 107,253,666 5.72% 1.36%
2007 2,507,887 108,774,360 6.05% 1.42%
2008 2,651,421 110,374,288 5.72% 1.47%
2009 2,795,484 111,999,721 5.43% 1.47%
2010 2,943,372 113,623,895 5.29% 1.45%
2011 3,132,814 115,243,504 6.44% 1.43%
2012 3,337,109 116,818,208 6.52% 1.37%
2013 3,507,844 118,343,573 5.12% 1.31%
2014 3,665,876 119,784,261 4.51% 1.22%
2015 3,834,574 121,072,306 4.6% 1.08%
2016 4,004,096 122,251,351 4.42% 0.97%
2017 4,154,812 123,400,057 3.76% 0.94%
2018 4,323,515 124,573,711 4.06% 0.95%
2019 4,442,316 125,762,982 2.75% 0.95%
2020 4,400,267 126,799,054 -0.95% 0.82%
2021 4,360,865 127,648,148 -0.9% 0.67%
2022 4,589,643 128,613,117 5.25% 0.76%
2023 4,853,420 129,739,759 5.75% 0.88%
2024 4,973,861 130,861,007 2.48% 0.86%
2025 5,066,162 131,946,905 1.86% 0.83%
2026 5,143,465 132,997,664 1.53% 0.8%
2027 5,209,589 134,017,711 1.29% 0.77%
2028 5,266,597 135,008,697 1.09% 0.74%
2029 5,318,118 135,970,893 0.98% 0.71%
2030 5,366,659 136,904,747 0.91% 0.69%
2031 5,414,485 137,811,068 0.89% 0.66%
2032 5,463,178 138,690,189 0.9% 0.64%
2033 5,512,705 139,542,087 0.91% 0.61%
2034 5,563,035 140,362,026 0.91% 0.59%
2035 5,614,091 141,150,818 0.92% 0.56%
2036 5,665,789 141,909,168 0.92% 0.54%
2037 5,718,074 142,637,546 0.92% 0.51%
2038 5,770,901 143,336,222 0.92% 0.49%
2039 5,824,158 143,998,296 0.92% 0.46%
2040 5,877,719 144,624,328 0.92% 0.43%
2041 5,931,576 145,217,780 0.92% 0.41%
2042 5,985,681 145,777,459 0.91% 0.39%
2043 6,039,888 146,300,011 0.91% 0.36%
2044 6,094,155 146,787,722 0.9% 0.33%
2045 6,148,424 147,240,096 0.89% 0.31%
2046 6,202,560 147,654,160 0.88% 0.28%
2047 6,256,606 148,030,153 0.87% 0.25%
2048 6,310,637 148,372,233 0.86% 0.23%
2049 6,364,604 148,677,894 0.86% 0.21%
2050 6,418,538 148,946,272 0.85% 0.18%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Kuwait increased by 1,597,786 people (a 71.4% growth), while Mexico gained 15,260,802 people (a 14.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Kuwait gained 1,293,683 (a 33.7% growth), while Mexico's population increased by 11,718,651 (a 9.68% growth).

Kuwait was ranked 140th most populous country in 2005 and is 127th in 2025. Mexico was ranked 11th in 2005 and still ranked 11th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Kuwait's population will grow by 25.2% to 6,418,538 people with a rank change from 127th to 117th. The population of Mexico will increase by 12.2% to 148,946,272 people and rank change from 11th to 12th.

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