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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Kuwait was 4,973,861 in 2024 vs 37,860,221 people in Ukraine in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Kuwait's population is 5,128,257 people compared to 39,426,577 in Ukraine.

Population statistics:

  • Ukraine's population is 7.69 times bigger than Kuwait's.
  • Kuwait is ranked the 127th most populous country in the world, while Ukraine is the 40th.
  • The countries together account for 0.54% of the world: 0.06% for Kuwait vs 0.48% for Ukraine.
  • For the last 10 years, Kuwait has had an average growth rate of +3.25% per year vs -1.74% in Ukraine.
  • Since 2005, the population of Kuwait has increased from 2.24M people to 5.13M (129.3% growth), while Ukraine has declined from 47.6M to 39.4M (17.1% decline).
  • Kuwait is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 9.68M people, while Ukraine's population already peaked in 1993 at 52.4M people and is projected to decrease to 15.2M people by 2100.

Kuwait vs Ukraine: live population counter

Kuwait Ukraine
Current population
5128257
39426577
Population rank 127/197 40/197
Percent of world population 0.06% 0.48%
One net population change
4.36 minutes
4.13 minutes
One birth every
10.5 minutes
2.48 minutes
One death every
1.18 hours
1.06 minutes
One migration net change every
8.53 minutes
27.5 seconds
Annual migration change +61,624 +1,146,012
Daily growth/decline +330 +349
Annual growth/decline +120,441 +127,385
Annual growth/decline rate +2.48% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 29/197 146/197

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

Kuwait
Population

Growth rate
Ukraine
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Kuwait Ukraine Kuwait Ukraine
1960 311,060 42,824,093 - -
1961 345,945 43,399,766 11.2% 1.34%
1962 384,995 43,943,674 11.3% 1.25%
1963 427,694 44,462,372 11.1% 1.18%
1964 473,115 44,951,156 10.6% 1.1%
1965 521,174 45,386,892 10.2% 0.97%
1966 572,590 45,802,519 9.87% 0.92%
1967 628,089 46,215,988 9.69% 0.9%
1968 687,716 46,614,325 9.49% 0.86%
1969 749,452 46,976,256 8.98% 0.78%
1970 809,114 47,261,306 7.96% 0.61%
1971 865,076 47,573,287 6.92% 0.66%
1972 920,352 47,946,893 6.39% 0.79%
1973 977,654 48,277,121 6.23% 0.69%
1974 1,038,346 48,576,570 6.21% 0.62%
1975 1,104,863 48,865,229 6.41% 0.59%
1976 1,178,711 49,120,842 6.68% 0.52%
1977 1,258,023 49,336,481 6.73% 0.44%
1978 1,340,319 49,521,243 6.54% 0.37%
1979 1,423,514 49,721,381 6.21% 0.4%
1980 1,504,782 49,955,152 5.71% 0.47%
1981 1,583,426 50,189,281 5.23% 0.47%
1982 1,662,480 50,402,724 4.99% 0.43%
1983 1,744,295 50,637,029 4.92% 0.46%
1984 1,820,688 50,887,599 4.38% 0.49%
1985 1,894,242 51,108,770 4.04% 0.43%
1986 1,972,520 51,318,745 4.13% 0.41%
1987 2,052,994 51,515,732 4.08% 0.38%
1988 2,134,707 51,724,853 3.98% 0.41%
1989 2,217,468 51,917,817 3.88% 0.37%
1990 1,684,819 52,054,092 -24% 0.26%
1991 1,351,399 52,170,961 -19.8% 0.22%
1992 1,634,961 52,323,671 21% 0.29%
1993 1,672,151 52,350,126 2.27% 0.05%
1994 1,664,361 52,075,998 -0.47% -0.52%
1995 1,681,513 51,665,539 1.03% -0.79%
1996 1,730,246 51,226,109 2.9% -0.85%
1997 1,787,683 50,786,885 3.32% -0.86%
1998 1,844,302 50,379,731 3.17% -0.8%
1999 1,900,030 49,976,446 3.02% -0.8%
2000 1,954,709 49,556,660 2.88% -0.84%
2001 2,008,121 49,106,855 2.73% -0.91%
2002 2,059,974 48,677,281 2.58% -0.87%
2003 2,109,881 48,315,136 2.42% -0.74%
2004 2,157,320 47,979,507 2.25% -0.69%
2005 2,236,788 47,585,556 3.68% -0.82%
2006 2,364,733 47,278,694 5.72% -0.64%
2007 2,507,887 47,062,798 6.05% -0.46%
2008 2,651,421 46,819,175 5.72% -0.52%
2009 2,795,484 46,623,731 5.43% -0.42%
2010 2,943,372 46,456,003 5.29% -0.36%
2011 3,132,814 46,307,853 6.44% -0.32%
2012 3,337,109 46,210,056 6.52% -0.21%
2013 3,507,844 46,126,770 5.12% -0.18%
2014 3,665,876 45,972,380 4.51% -0.33%
2015 3,834,574 45,784,896 4.6% -0.41%
2016 4,004,096 45,616,832 4.42% -0.37%
2017 4,154,812 45,436,041 3.76% -0.4%
2018 4,323,515 45,208,907 4.06% -0.5%
2019 4,442,316 44,957,458 2.75% -0.56%
2020 4,400,267 44,680,014 -0.95% -0.62%
2021 4,360,865 44,298,640 -0.9% -0.85%
2022 4,589,643 41,048,766 5.25% -7.34%
2023 4,853,420 37,732,836 5.75% -8.08%
2024 4,973,861 37,860,221 2.48% 0.34%
2025 5,066,162 38,980,379 1.86% 2.96%
2026 5,143,465 39,535,850 1.53% 1.43%
2027 5,209,589 39,245,208 1.29% -0.74%
2028 5,266,597 38,952,086 1.09% -0.75%
2029 5,318,118 38,654,416 0.98% -0.76%
2030 5,366,659 38,353,848 0.91% -0.78%
2031 5,414,485 38,050,624 0.89% -0.79%
2032 5,463,178 37,746,688 0.9% -0.8%
2033 5,512,705 37,442,088 0.91% -0.81%
2034 5,563,035 37,135,839 0.91% -0.82%
2035 5,614,091 36,828,149 0.92% -0.83%
2036 5,665,789 36,519,767 0.92% -0.84%
2037 5,718,074 36,209,679 0.92% -0.85%
2038 5,770,901 35,897,705 0.92% -0.86%
2039 5,824,158 35,584,263 0.92% -0.87%
2040 5,877,719 35,270,911 0.92% -0.88%
2041 5,931,576 34,957,580 0.92% -0.89%
2042 5,985,681 34,641,778 0.91% -0.9%
2043 6,039,888 34,324,132 0.91% -0.92%
2044 6,094,155 34,004,074 0.9% -0.93%
2045 6,148,424 33,680,448 0.89% -0.95%
2046 6,202,560 33,351,499 0.88% -0.98%
2047 6,256,606 33,017,828 0.87% -1%
2048 6,310,637 32,680,968 0.86% -1.02%
2049 6,364,604 32,338,515 0.86% -1.05%
2050 6,418,538 31,990,136 0.85% -1.08%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Kuwait increased by 1,597,786 people (a 71.4% growth), while Ukraine lost 1,800,660 people (a 3.78% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Kuwait gained 1,293,683 (a 33.7% growth), while Ukraine's population decreased by -6,358,319 (a 13.9% decline).

Kuwait was ranked 140th most populous country in 2005 and is 127th in 2025. Ukraine was ranked 26th in 2005 and ranked 40th 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 Ukraine will decrease by 18.9% to 31,990,136 people and rank change from 40th to 60th.

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