Population in Kuwait compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Kuwait and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Kuwait	United Kingdom	Kuwait	United Kingdom
1960	311,060	52,400,000	-	-
1961	345,945	52,800,000	11.2%	0.76%
1962	384,995	53,250,000	11.3%	0.85%
1963	427,694	53,650,000	11.1%	0.75%
1964	473,115	54,000,000	10.6%	0.65%
1965	521,174	54,348,050	10.2%	0.64%
1966	572,590	54,648,500	9.87%	0.55%
1967	628,089	54,943,600	9.69%	0.54%
1968	687,716	55,211,700	9.49%	0.49%
1969	749,452	55,441,750	8.98%	0.42%
1970	809,114	55,663,250	7.96%	0.4%
1971	865,076	55,896,223	6.92%	0.42%
1972	920,352	56,086,065	6.39%	0.34%
1973	977,654	56,194,527	6.23%	0.19%
1974	1,038,346	56,229,974	6.21%	0.06%
1975	1,104,863	56,225,800	6.41%	-0.007%
1976	1,178,711	56,211,968	6.68%	-0.02%
1977	1,258,023	56,193,492	6.73%	-0.03%
1978	1,340,319	56,196,504	6.54%	0.005%
1979	1,423,514	56,246,951	6.21%	0.09%
1980	1,504,782	56,314,216	5.71%	0.12%
1981	1,583,426	56,333,829	5.23%	0.03%
1982	1,662,480	56,313,641	4.99%	-0.04%
1983	1,744,295	56,332,848	4.92%	0.03%
1984	1,820,688	56,422,072	4.38%	0.16%
1985	1,894,242	56,550,268	4.04%	0.23%
1986	1,972,520	56,681,396	4.13%	0.23%
1987	2,052,994	56,802,050	4.08%	0.21%
1988	2,134,707	56,928,327	3.98%	0.22%
1989	2,217,468	57,076,711	3.88%	0.26%
1990	1,684,819	57,247,586	-24%	0.3%
1991	1,351,399	57,424,897	-19.8%	0.31%
1992	1,634,961	57,580,402	21%	0.27%
1993	1,672,151	57,718,614	2.27%	0.24%
1994	1,664,361	57,865,745	-0.47%	0.25%
1995	1,681,513	58,019,030	1.03%	0.26%
1996	1,730,246	58,166,950	2.9%	0.25%
1997	1,787,683	58,316,954	3.32%	0.26%
1998	1,844,302	58,487,141	3.17%	0.29%
1999	1,900,030	58,682,466	3.02%	0.33%
2000	1,954,709	58,892,514	2.88%	0.36%
2001	2,008,121	59,119,673	2.73%	0.39%
2002	2,059,974	59,370,479	2.58%	0.42%
2003	2,109,881	59,647,577	2.42%	0.47%
2004	2,157,320	59,987,905	2.25%	0.57%
2005	2,236,788	60,401,206	3.68%	0.69%
2006	2,364,733	60,846,820	5.72%	0.74%
2007	2,507,887	61,322,463	6.05%	0.78%
2008	2,651,421	61,806,995	5.72%	0.79%
2009	2,795,484	62,276,270	5.43%	0.76%
2010	2,943,372	62,766,365	5.29%	0.79%
2011	3,132,814	63,258,810	6.44%	0.78%
2012	3,337,109	63,711,000	6.52%	0.71%
2013	3,507,844	64,139,000	5.12%	0.67%
2014	3,665,876	64,620,000	4.51%	0.75%
2015	3,834,574	65,088,000	4.6%	0.72%
2016	4,004,096	65,607,000	4.42%	0.8%
2017	4,154,812	65,966,000	3.76%	0.55%
2018	4,323,515	66,289,000	4.06%	0.49%
2019	4,442,316	66,631,000	2.75%	0.52%
2020	4,400,267	66,744,000	-0.95%	0.17%
2021	4,360,865	66,984,000	-0.9%	0.36%
2022	4,589,643	67,604,000	5.25%	0.93%
2023	4,853,420	68,492,000	5.75%	1.31%
2024	4,973,861	69,226,000	2.48%	1.07%
2025	5,066,162	69,639,673	1.86%	0.6%
2026	5,143,465	70,020,350	1.53%	0.55%
2027	5,209,589	70,382,853	1.29%	0.52%
2028	5,266,597	70,732,699	1.09%	0.5%
2029	5,318,118	71,061,482	0.98%	0.46%
2030	5,366,659	71,377,535	0.91%	0.44%
2031	5,414,485	71,678,351	0.89%	0.42%
2032	5,463,178	71,959,934	0.9%	0.39%
2033	5,512,705	72,234,509	0.91%	0.38%
2034	5,563,035	72,497,650	0.91%	0.36%
2035	5,614,091	72,749,096	0.92%	0.35%
2036	5,665,789	72,990,847	0.92%	0.33%
2037	5,718,074	73,218,850	0.92%	0.31%
2038	5,770,901	73,441,349	0.92%	0.3%
2039	5,824,158	73,658,392	0.92%	0.3%
2040	5,877,719	73,868,334	0.92%	0.29%
2041	5,931,576	74,074,316	0.92%	0.28%
2042	5,985,681	74,275,779	0.91%	0.27%
2043	6,039,888	74,475,035	0.91%	0.27%
2044	6,094,155	74,667,284	0.9%	0.26%
2045	6,148,424	74,848,605	0.89%	0.24%
2046	6,202,560	75,020,949	0.88%	0.23%
2047	6,256,606	75,184,478	0.87%	0.22%
2048	6,310,637	75,337,543	0.86%	0.2%
2049	6,364,604	75,476,141	0.86%	0.18%
2050	6,418,538	75,600,588	0.85%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Kuwait increased by 1,597,786 people (a 71.4% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Kuwait gained 1,293,683 (a 33.7% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Kuwait was ranked 140th most populous country in 2005 and is 127th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.