Country comparison: Kuwait / Qatar

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Kuwait and Qatar. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Kuwait	Qatar
Region:	Western Asia	Western Asia
Area:	17,820 km²	11,610 km²
Official language:	Arabic	Arabic
Government form:	Constitutional monarchy	Absolute monarchy
Independent since:	1961 AD	1971 AD
Capital:	Kuwait City	Doha

Population

Details for Kuwait and Qatar

	Kuwait	Qatar
Population:	4,250,000	2,688,000
Inhabitants/km²:	238.5	231.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 77 years	Ø 78 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 29.7 years	Ø 33.7 years
Birth rate:	10.41 ‰	9.82 ‰
Death rate:	2.91 ‰	1.31 ‰
Migrationrate:	-4.07 ‰	0.78 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Kuwait	Qatar
Political stability:	73	84
Civil rights:	45	59
Health:	72	59
Climate:	31	61
Cost of Living:	72	70
Popularity:	25	34

Economy

Details for Kuwait and Qatar

	Kuwait	Qatar
Currency:	Kuwaiti dinar (1 KWD = 1000 Fils)	Qatari rial (1 QAR =100 Dirham)
Unemployment rate:	2.5 %	0.1 %
Inflation rate:	3.42 %	5.00 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	59.59 %	69.54 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	13.00 %	11.30 %
Average income:	34,290 US$	62,310 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	8.68 %	58.36 %
Corruption index:	58 (bad)	42 (moderate)

	KWT: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	105,960 M US$	24.93 M US$	179,677 M US$	66.84 M US$
Gross national product:	152,276 M US$	35.83 M US$	167,494 M US$	62.31 M US$
Exported goods:	77,121 M US$	18.15 M US$	105,549 M US$	39.26 M US$
Imported goods:	48,954 M US$	11.52 M US$	61,204 M US$	22.77 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Kuwait and Qatar

	KWT: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	5,749 km	1.35 km	7,039 km	2.62 km
Harbours:	165	0.0388	129	0.0480
Passenger airports:	1	0.0002	1	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Kuwait and Qatar

	KWT: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	169.69 bn kWh	39.93 m kWh	93.15 bn kWh	34.65 m kWh
Energy consumption:	63.80 bn kWh	15.01 m kWh	44.12 bn kWh	16.41 m kWh
Energy production:	70.50 bn kWh	16.59 m kWh	46.89 bn kWh	17.44 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	92.65 m t	21,798.99 t	91.97 m t	34,211.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for Kuwait and Qatar

	Kuwait	Qatar
International dialing:	+965	+974
Internet domain:	.kw	.qa

	KWT total	KWT per 1000 inh.	QAT total	QAT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	583,463	137	460,240	171
Mobile cellulars:	6,918,180	1628	3,876,499	1442
Internet server:	2,771	1	897	0
Internet users:	4,237,364	997	2,678,903	997
Broadband Internet:	70,468	17	311,888	116

Healthcare system

Details for Kuwait and Qatar

	Kuwait	Qatar
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.04	1.25
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.58	0.00
Diabetes:	12.2 %	15.6 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.13 %
Tuberculosis:	0.20 ‰	0.42 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	77.0 %
Smokers:	17.9 %	11.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Kuwait and Qatar

	Kuwait	Qatar
Daytime temperatures:	35.2 °C	33.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	24.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	39 %	59 %
Rain days:	1.1	0.6
Sunshine hours per day:	8.0	9.4

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Kuwait	Qatar
Arabic:	78.1 %	40.7 %
other:	21.9 %	59.3 %

Religions

	Kuwait	Qatar
State religion:	Sunni Islam	Sunni Islam
Islam:	73.2 %	77.5 %
Christianity:	16.0 %	8.5 %
Hinduism:	8.3 %	12.0 %
other:	2.5 %	2.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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