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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Kuwait was 4,973,861 in 2024 vs 251,269,164 people in Pakistan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Kuwait's population is 5,128,257 people compared to 258,497,127 in Pakistan.

Population statistics:

  • Pakistan's population is 50.4 times bigger than Kuwait's.
  • Kuwait is ranked the 127th most populous country in the world, while Pakistan is the 5th.
  • The countries together account for 3.19% of the world: 0.06% for Kuwait vs 3.13% for Pakistan.
  • For the last 10 years, Kuwait has had an average growth rate of +3.25% per year vs +1.6% in Pakistan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Kuwait has increased from 2.24M people to 5.13M (129.3% growth), while Pakistan has grown from 175M to 258M (47.3% growth).
  • Kuwait is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 9.68M people compared to the peak of 511M people in 2100 for Pakistan.

Kuwait vs Pakistan: live population counter

Kuwait Pakistan
Current population
5128257
258497127
Population rank 127/197 5/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 3.13%
One net population change
4.36 minutes
8.38 seconds
One birth every
10.5 minutes
4.58 seconds
One death every
1.18 hours
19.7 seconds
One migration net change every
8.53 minutes
22.5 seconds
Annual migration change +61,624 -1,401,173
Daily growth/decline +330 +10,314
Annual growth/decline +120,441 +3,764,669
Annual growth/decline rate +2.48% +1.52%
Population growth rate rank 29/197 73/197

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

Kuwait
Population

Growth rate
Pakistan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Kuwait Pakistan Kuwait Pakistan
1960 311,060 45,709,310 - -
1961 345,945 46,921,277 11.2% 2.65%
1962 384,995 48,156,128 11.3% 2.63%
1963 427,694 49,447,776 11.1% 2.68%
1964 473,115 50,799,999 10.6% 2.73%
1965 521,174 52,209,010 10.2% 2.77%
1966 572,590 53,678,667 9.87% 2.81%
1967 628,089 55,214,768 9.69% 2.86%
1968 687,716 56,810,507 9.49% 2.89%
1969 749,452 58,460,939 8.98% 2.91%
1970 809,114 60,166,719 7.96% 2.92%
1971 865,076 61,847,899 6.92% 2.79%
1972 920,352 63,583,194 6.39% 2.81%
1973 977,654 65,461,912 6.23% 2.95%
1974 1,038,346 67,415,487 6.21% 2.98%
1975 1,104,863 69,461,175 6.41% 3.03%
1976 1,178,711 71,620,254 6.68% 3.11%
1977 1,258,023 73,901,827 6.73% 3.19%
1978 1,340,319 76,307,379 6.54% 3.26%
1979 1,423,514 78,997,039 6.21% 3.52%
1980 1,504,782 82,291,010 5.71% 4.17%
1981 1,583,426 85,802,049 5.23% 4.27%
1982 1,662,480 89,089,246 4.99% 3.83%
1983 1,744,295 92,227,711 4.92% 3.52%
1984 1,820,688 95,164,936 4.38% 3.18%
1985 1,894,242 98,229,285 4.04% 3.22%
1986 1,972,520 101,606,764 4.13% 3.44%
1987 2,052,994 105,130,717 4.08% 3.47%
1988 2,134,707 108,724,739 3.98% 3.42%
1989 2,217,468 112,336,629 3.88% 3.32%
1990 1,684,819 116,155,576 -24% 3.4%
1991 1,351,399 120,060,406 -19.8% 3.36%
1992 1,634,961 123,546,848 21% 2.9%
1993 1,672,151 127,020,117 2.27% 2.81%
1994 1,664,361 130,748,083 -0.47% 2.93%
1995 1,681,513 134,582,253 1.03% 2.93%
1996 1,730,246 138,557,092 2.9% 2.95%
1997 1,787,683 142,531,804 3.32% 2.87%
1998 1,844,302 146,522,356 3.17% 2.8%
1999 1,900,030 150,565,377 3.02% 2.76%
2000 1,954,709 154,879,127 2.88% 2.87%
2001 2,008,121 159,270,907 2.73% 2.84%
2002 2,059,974 163,222,549 2.58% 2.48%
2003 2,109,881 167,110,248 2.42% 2.38%
2004 2,157,320 171,286,000 2.25% 2.5%
2005 2,236,788 175,453,212 3.68% 2.43%
2006 2,364,733 179,682,690 5.72% 2.41%
2007 2,507,887 184,493,231 6.05% 2.68%
2008 2,651,421 189,499,113 5.72% 2.71%
2009 2,795,484 194,376,534 5.43% 2.57%
2010 2,943,372 199,239,047 5.29% 2.5%
2011 3,132,814 203,746,065 6.44% 2.26%
2012 3,337,109 207,667,125 6.52% 1.92%
2013 3,507,844 211,073,978 5.12% 1.64%
2014 3,665,876 214,264,647 4.51% 1.51%
2015 3,834,574 217,290,883 4.6% 1.41%
2016 4,004,096 220,138,869 4.42% 1.31%
2017 4,154,812 223,273,967 3.76% 1.42%
2018 4,323,515 226,928,892 4.06% 1.64%
2019 4,442,316 230,800,899 2.75% 1.71%
2020 4,400,267 235,001,746 -0.95% 1.82%
2021 4,360,865 239,477,801 -0.9% 1.9%
2022 4,589,643 243,700,667 5.25% 1.76%
2023 4,853,420 247,504,495 5.75% 1.56%
2024 4,973,861 251,269,164 2.48% 1.52%
2025 5,066,162 255,219,564 1.86% 1.57%
2026 5,143,465 259,299,796 1.53% 1.6%
2027 5,209,589 263,515,827 1.29% 1.63%
2028 5,266,597 267,881,923 1.09% 1.66%
2029 5,318,118 272,337,520 0.98% 1.66%
2030 5,366,659 276,883,261 0.91% 1.67%
2031 5,414,485 281,528,070 0.89% 1.68%
2032 5,463,178 286,241,141 0.9% 1.67%
2033 5,512,705 291,012,268 0.91% 1.67%
2034 5,563,035 295,820,153 0.91% 1.65%
2035 5,614,091 300,643,518 0.92% 1.63%
2036 5,665,789 305,491,504 0.92% 1.61%
2037 5,718,074 310,353,293 0.92% 1.59%
2038 5,770,901 315,227,709 0.92% 1.57%
2039 5,824,158 320,105,882 0.92% 1.55%
2040 5,877,719 324,937,703 0.92% 1.51%
2041 5,931,576 329,746,478 0.92% 1.48%
2042 5,985,681 334,551,874 0.91% 1.46%
2043 6,039,888 339,334,851 0.91% 1.43%
2044 6,094,155 344,095,467 0.9% 1.4%
2045 6,148,424 348,837,732 0.89% 1.38%
2046 6,202,560 353,552,859 0.88% 1.35%
2047 6,256,606 358,207,159 0.87% 1.32%
2048 6,310,637 362,796,532 0.86% 1.28%
2049 6,364,604 367,344,429 0.86% 1.25%
2050 6,418,538 371,863,804 0.85% 1.23%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Kuwait increased by 1,597,786 people (a 71.4% growth), while Pakistan gained 41,837,671 people (a 23.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Kuwait gained 1,293,683 (a 33.7% growth), while Pakistan's population increased by 41,206,244 (a 19% growth).

Kuwait was ranked 140th most populous country in 2005 and is 127th in 2025. Pakistan was ranked 6th in 2005 and ranked 5th 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 Pakistan will increase by 43.9% to 371,863,804 people and rank change from 5th to 4th.

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