Vulnerable Employment / Kuwait
Kuwait Vulnerable Employment
Kuwait vulnerable employment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 2.40%.
COUNTRY: Kuwait
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-14 05:10:18
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 · vulnerable employment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
2.40%
Previous
2.34%
Range avg.
1.82%
Rank
103
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CountryKuwait
IndicatorVulnerable Employment
2.40%2025 · Rank 103
Chart range
All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Kuwait recorded 2.40% for Vulnerable Employment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.06 percentage points, from 2.34% to 2.40%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (1.82%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 1.15% in 2016 and the high was 2.40% in 2025.
Comparison
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