Kuwait Employment Rate
Kuwait employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 71.77%.
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Kuwait · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Kuwait recorded 71.77% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.21 percentage points, from 71.98% to 71.77%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (71.08%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 66.79% in 2020 and the high was 72.77% in 2022.