Kuwait
General information
Capital: Kuwait City
Currency unit: Kuwaiti dinar
Area: 17,820 km²
Total population: 4,897,260
GDP (millions of US dollars): 160,227
GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 52,444
Production
Agriculture (% of GDP): 0.4 %
Manufacture (% of GDP): 7.1 %
Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 43.3 %
Services (% of GDP): 49.2 %
Trade
Total exports (millions of US dollars): 89,710
Total imports (millions of US dollars): 61,521
Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Petroleum oils, oils from bitumin. materials, crude (42.5 %)
Petroleum oils or bituminous minerals (37.8 %)
Liquefied propane and butane (5.5 %)
Hydrocarbons & halogenated, nitr. derivative (3.1 %)
Motor vehicles for the transport of persons (1.6 %)
Revealed Competitiveness
This section brings together measures of countries’ revealed competitiveness in international markets, that is, their ability to export to those markets. These measures of export competitiveness are therefore the result of the price and non-price competitiveness factors presented in the sections “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” and “Price Competitiveness.” They are defined on a scale ranging from 0 to 10,000, with a higher value indicating greater export competitiveness in international markets.
| Kuwait | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revealed Competitiveness | - | |
| Global Market Share Kuwait: 2 | 2 | |
| Revealed Competitiveness Index Kuwait: 18 | 18 |