Imports / Kuwait
Kuwait Imports
Kuwait imports data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 38.23%.
COUNTRY: Kuwait
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 12:15:06
GM ECONOMY RATING
Kuwait · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
70 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
13.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
5.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Kuwait · imports data as percent of GDP.
Latest
38.23%
Previous
38.33%
Range avg.
40.08%
Rank
68
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CountryKuwait
IndicatorImports
38.23%2024 · Rank 68
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Kuwait recorded 38.23% for Imports in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator decreased by 0.10 percentage points, from 38.33% to 38.23%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (40.08%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 30.27% in 2021 and the high was 48.53% in 2016.
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