Kuwait
State of Kuwait
- Capital
- Kuwait City
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 4.9 million
- Currency
- KWD
- Area
- 17,818 km²
Across Kuwait's 21 priced cities, one person needs about $1,285 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $2,976.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
60out of 100
- Purchasing power25%85
- Safety20%68
- Health care15%59
- Climate10%20
- Air quality10%0
- Connectivity10%89
- Cost10%55
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #61
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
42.3
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
19.9
New York = 100
Purchasing power
226.7
New York = 100
One person
$1,285
A month, rent included
Net salary
$2,976
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$649
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$32,312
2025
Growth
+2.7%
2025
Unemployment
2.2%
2025
Inflation
2.4%
2025
Life expectancy
84.6 years
2024
Internet users
100%
2025
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Social security, employee
- 8%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 11.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Property tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 67.6
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 32.4
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2020
- 0.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #17 worldwide
- 269
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #3 worldwide
- 400
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +19%
Cities in Kuwait
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Abu Halifa | 66 | 40.3 | $875 | $5,241 | 404.6 | — | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 2Abraq Khaitan | 66 | 37.8 | $725 | $3,405 | 301.0 | — | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 3Al-Qurain | 65 | 49.0 | — | $4,506 | 339.8 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Shuwaikh | 65 | 49.0 | — | $4,221 | 318.2 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Kayfan | 65 | 49.0 | — | $4,101 | 309.2 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Al-farwaniyah | 64 | 34.3 | $568 | $2,056 | 217.0 | 86.5K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 7Ahmadi | 64 | 42.3 | $649 | $3,544 | 315.2 | 637.4K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 8Al-jahra' | 62 | 55.5 | — | $2,955 | 209.3 | 24.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 9Shaab | 62 | 49.0 | $974 | $3,247 | 217.1 | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 10Sabah Al Salem | 61 | 56.7 | $649 | $2,976 | 226.7 | 139.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 11Hawalli | 60 | 41.8 | $584 | $1,867 | 176.1 | 164.2K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 12As-salimiyah | 60 | 47.0 | $893 | $2,803 | 200.5 | 147.6K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 13Mangaf | 58 | 42.1 | $244 | — | — | — | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 14Mahboula | 57 | 37.9 | $729 | $1,297 | 114.1 | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 15Salmiya | 56 | 49.6 | $1,061 | $2,161 | 136.8 | 147.6K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 16Fahaheel | 55 | — | $486 | $4,214 | — | 68.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 17Janub-as-surrah | 55 | — | — | — | — | 18.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 18Al Wafrah | 55 | — | — | $4,322 | — | 10K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Hadiya | 55 | — | $778 | $4,539 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 20Qairawan (Qayrawan) | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 21Jeleeb Al-Shuyoukh (Al Shuyough) | 55 | 44.4 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 22Al-'udayliyah | 55 | — | — | $5,430 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 23Ardiya | 54 | 49.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 24Mishref | 54 | 49.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 25Kuwait City | 54 | 51.2 | $930 | $2,075 | 139.7 | 60.1K | High confidence, 39 contributors |
| 26Bayan | 51 | 55.5 | $1,299 | — | — | 30.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 27Ar-rawdah | 47 | 49.0 | $2,593 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |