Trade Openness / Kuwait
Kuwait Trade Openness
Kuwait trade openness data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 96.08%.
COUNTRY: Kuwait
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-12 04:00:58
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
14.0 / 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 · trade openness data as percent of GDP.
Latest
96.08%
Previous
90.92%
Range avg.
93.82%
Rank
31
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CountryKuwait
IndicatorTrade Openness
96.08%2023 · Rank 31
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Kuwait recorded 96.08% for Trade Openness in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 5.16 percentage points, from 90.92% to 96.08%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (93.82%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 82.00% in 2021 and the high was 102.79% in 2018.