Military Spending / Kuwait
Kuwait Military Spending
Kuwait military spending data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 4.84%.
COUNTRY: Kuwait
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:12
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 · military spending data as percent of GDP.
Latest
4.84%
Previous
4.77%
Range avg.
5.40%
Rank
12
Countries by military spending
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CountryKuwait
IndicatorMilitary Spending
4.84%2024 · Rank 12
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Kuwait recorded 4.84% for Military Spending in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.07 percentage points, from 4.77% to 4.84%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (5.40%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.51% in 2022 and the high was 6.47% in 2020.
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