Kuwait City — UN urban centre
Kuwait City: 4,265,132 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #101 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 305; territory: Kuwait (KWT). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 29.2828, 47.9995. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 735,089 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,136,978 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,466,147 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,400,421 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,325,528 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,557,617 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,820,290 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,416,263 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,115,381 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,697,161 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,265,132 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,517,470 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,707,718 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,911,588 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,112,919 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,325,605 | Projection |
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