Kuwait 
Facts
Population: 2,505,559
note: includes 1,291,354 non-nationals (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 26.7% (male 340,814/female 328,663)
15-64 years: 70.5% (male 1,128,231/female 636,967)
65 years and over: 2.8% (male 44,542/female 26,342) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 3.561%
note: this rate reflects a return to pre-Gulf crisis immigration of expatriates (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 21.95 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 2.39 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 16.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.04 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.037 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.771 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.691 male(s)/female
total population: 1.526 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 9.47 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 10.48 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 8.42 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.36 years
male: 76.25 years
female: 78.52 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.86 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.12% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA.
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Kuwaiti(s)
adjective: Kuwaiti.
Ethnic groups: Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7%.
Religions: Muslim 85% (Sunni 70%, Shi'a 30%), other (includes Christian, Hindu, Parsi) 15%.
Languages: Arabic (official), English widely spoken.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 93.3%
male: 94.4%
female: 91% (2005 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $55.91 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 12.6% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $23,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 0.4%
industry: 48.3%
services: 51.3% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 1.136 million
note: non-Kuwaitis represent about 80% of the labor force (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: NA%.
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 2.2% (2004 est.).
Budget: revenues: $59.58 billion
expenditures: $33.62 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: practically no crops; fish.
Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, cement, shipbuilding and repair, water desalination, food processing, construction materials.
Industrial production growth rate: 13.1% (2005 est.).
Electricity - production: 40.37 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 37.54 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $56.06 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: oil and refined products, fertilizers.
Exports - partners: Japan 19.7%, South Korea 15.4%, US 11.9%, Taiwan 11.1%, Singapore 9.5%, Netherlands 4.7% (2005).
Imports: $19.12 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing.
Imports - partners: US 14.1%, Germany 10.8%, Japan 8.4%, Saudi Arabia 6.2%, UK 5.7%, France 4.8%, China 4.5% (2005).
Debt - external: $19.7 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $NA.
Currency (code): Kuwaiti dinar (KD).
Exchange rates: Kuwaiti dinars per US dollar - 0.29 (2006), 0.292 (2005), 0.2947 (2004), 0.298 (2003), 0.3039 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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Akhbar al-Kuwait
(Pro-government), Kuwait City
(Pro-government), Kuwait City
http://www.alanba.com.kw/
Al-'Arabi
(Intellectual magazine), Kuwait City
(Arabic-language, weekly magazine), Kuwait City
http://www.al-nahda.com/
(Independent), Kuwait City
http://www.moc.kw/alqabas/
(Pro-government), Kuwait City
http://www.alraialaam.com
(Pro-government), Kuwait City
http://www.al-seyassah.com
Kuwait in the News
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World Press Review correspondent Peter C. Valenti examines Arab press commentary on the deepening rifts within the Arab world as the Iraq crisis escalates.
Jonathan Gatehouse, of Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's, has done some remarkable investigative reporting into the death of Canadian citizen in Kuwait.
Israel's decision to cut back water supplies to neighboring Jordan has helped to warm the Hashemite Kingdom's relations with its long-time adversary Syria, discomfiting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, writes Danny Rubenstein in Tel Aviv's liberal Ha'aretz.
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