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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Kuwait was 4,973,861 in 2024 vs 54,500,091 people in Myanmar in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Kuwait's population is 5,128,257 people compared to 55,119,090 in Myanmar.

Population statistics:

  • Myanmar's population is 10.7 times bigger than Kuwait's.
  • Kuwait is ranked the 127th most populous country in the world, while Myanmar is the 27th.
  • The countries together account for 0.73% of the world: 0.06% for Kuwait vs 0.67% for Myanmar.
  • For the last 10 years, Kuwait has had an average growth rate of +3.25% per year vs +0.74% in Myanmar.
  • Since 2005, the population of Kuwait has increased from 2.24M people to 5.13M (129.3% growth), while Myanmar has grown from 47.4M to 55.1M (16.2% growth).
  • Kuwait is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 9.68M people compared to the peak of 58.6M people in 2049 for Myanmar.

Kuwait vs Myanmar: live population counter

Kuwait Myanmar
Current population
5128257
55119090
Population rank 127/197 27/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 0.67%
One net population change
4.36 minutes
1.43 minutes
One birth every
10.5 minutes
34.9 seconds
One death every
1.18 hours
1.06 minutes
One migration net change every
8.53 minutes
13.8 minutes
Annual migration change +61,624 -37,979
Daily growth/decline +330 +1,004
Annual growth/decline +120,441 +366,293
Annual growth/decline rate +2.48% +0.68%
Population growth rate rank 29/197 121/197

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

Kuwait
Population

Growth rate
Myanmar
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Kuwait Myanmar Kuwait Myanmar
1960 311,060 21,730,250 - -
1961 345,945 22,210,581 11.2% 2.21%
1962 384,995 22,704,719 11.3% 2.22%
1963 427,694 23,213,408 11.1% 2.24%
1964 473,115 23,737,315 10.6% 2.26%
1965 521,174 24,279,431 10.2% 2.28%
1966 572,590 24,836,496 9.87% 2.29%
1967 628,089 25,406,429 9.69% 2.29%
1968 687,716 25,989,662 9.49% 2.3%
1969 749,452 26,585,112 8.98% 2.29%
1970 809,114 27,193,016 7.96% 2.29%
1971 865,076 27,807,219 6.92% 2.26%
1972 920,352 28,428,324 6.39% 2.23%
1973 977,654 29,026,388 6.23% 2.1%
1974 1,038,346 29,598,167 6.21% 1.97%
1975 1,104,863 30,176,565 6.41% 1.95%
1976 1,178,711 30,758,811 6.68% 1.93%
1977 1,258,023 31,355,966 6.73% 1.94%
1978 1,340,319 31,972,976 6.54% 1.97%
1979 1,423,514 32,596,550 6.21% 1.95%
1980 1,504,782 33,227,204 5.71% 1.93%
1981 1,583,426 33,858,783 5.23% 1.9%
1982 1,662,480 34,482,965 4.99% 1.84%
1983 1,744,295 35,162,715 4.92% 1.97%
1984 1,820,688 35,899,313 4.38% 2.09%
1985 1,894,242 36,622,827 4.04% 2.02%
1986 1,972,520 37,314,878 4.13% 1.89%
1987 2,052,994 37,971,594 4.08% 1.76%
1988 2,134,707 38,600,927 3.98% 1.66%
1989 2,217,468 39,214,618 3.88% 1.59%
1990 1,684,819 39,817,251 -24% 1.54%
1991 1,351,399 40,394,154 -19.8% 1.45%
1992 1,634,961 40,950,342 21% 1.38%
1993 1,672,151 41,502,429 2.27% 1.35%
1994 1,664,361 42,055,143 -0.47% 1.33%
1995 1,681,513 42,605,338 1.03% 1.31%
1996 1,730,246 43,154,860 2.9% 1.29%
1997 1,787,683 43,708,798 3.32% 1.28%
1998 1,844,302 44,257,793 3.17% 1.26%
1999 1,900,030 44,787,724 3.02% 1.2%
2000 1,954,709 45,290,841 2.88% 1.12%
2001 2,008,121 45,771,139 2.73% 1.06%
2002 2,059,974 46,232,653 2.58% 1.01%
2003 2,109,881 46,667,192 2.42% 0.94%
2004 2,157,320 47,068,772 2.25% 0.86%
2005 2,236,788 47,438,365 3.68% 0.79%
2006 2,364,733 47,785,135 5.72% 0.73%
2007 2,507,887 48,125,043 6.05% 0.71%
2008 2,651,421 48,390,793 5.72% 0.55%
2009 2,795,484 48,660,459 5.43% 0.56%
2010 2,943,372 49,024,382 5.29% 0.75%
2011 3,132,814 49,419,820 6.44% 0.81%
2012 3,337,109 49,837,446 6.52% 0.85%
2013 3,507,844 50,262,658 5.12% 0.85%
2014 3,665,876 50,681,634 4.51% 0.83%
2015 3,834,574 51,089,056 4.6% 0.8%
2016 4,004,096 51,495,696 4.42% 0.8%
2017 4,154,812 51,894,938 3.76% 0.78%
2018 4,323,515 52,272,247 4.06% 0.73%
2019 4,442,316 52,640,713 2.75% 0.7%
2020 4,400,267 53,016,522 -0.95% 0.71%
2021 4,360,865 53,387,102 -0.9% 0.7%
2022 4,589,643 53,756,787 5.25% 0.69%
2023 4,853,420 54,133,798 5.75% 0.7%
2024 4,973,861 54,500,091 2.48% 0.68%
2025 5,066,162 54,850,652 1.86% 0.64%
2026 5,143,465 55,184,831 1.53% 0.61%
2027 5,209,589 55,502,494 1.29% 0.58%
2028 5,266,597 55,802,778 1.09% 0.54%
2029 5,318,118 56,085,147 0.98% 0.51%
2030 5,366,659 56,351,028 0.91% 0.47%
2031 5,414,485 56,601,632 0.89% 0.44%
2032 5,463,178 56,836,048 0.9% 0.41%
2033 5,512,705 57,054,552 0.91% 0.38%
2034 5,563,035 57,257,183 0.91% 0.36%
2035 5,614,091 57,444,471 0.92% 0.33%
2036 5,665,789 57,616,158 0.92% 0.3%
2037 5,718,074 57,773,912 0.92% 0.27%
2038 5,770,901 57,919,868 0.92% 0.25%
2039 5,824,158 58,052,183 0.92% 0.23%
2040 5,877,719 58,169,863 0.92% 0.2%
2041 5,931,576 58,274,275 0.92% 0.18%
2042 5,985,681 58,365,927 0.91% 0.16%
2043 6,039,888 58,443,291 0.91% 0.13%
2044 6,094,155 58,506,418 0.9% 0.11%
2045 6,148,424 58,558,173 0.89% 0.09%
2046 6,202,560 58,596,775 0.88% 0.07%
2047 6,256,606 58,620,774 0.87% 0.04%
2048 6,310,637 58,632,733 0.86% 0.02%
2049 6,364,604 58,633,128 0.86% 0.001%
2050 6,418,538 58,623,237 0.85% -0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Kuwait increased by 1,597,786 people (a 71.4% growth), while Myanmar gained 3,650,691 people (a 7.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Kuwait gained 1,293,683 (a 33.7% growth), while Myanmar's population increased by 4,030,034 (a 7.89% growth).

Kuwait was ranked 140th most populous country in 2005 and is 127th in 2025. Myanmar was ranked 27th in 2005 and still ranked 27th 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 Myanmar will increase by 6.36% to 58,623,237 people and rank change from 27th to 35th.

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