Kuwait vs Saudi Arabia: Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita, 2015 prices
Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita, 2015 prices over time
- Kuwait
- Saudi Arabia
How they compare
Saudi Arabia currently reports 23,265 USD against 23,150 USD in Kuwait, a difference of 115 USD.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Kuwait ahead.
Kuwait ranks 50th and Saudi Arabia ranks 49th of 195 countries.
Across the 6 decades both report, Kuwait averaged higher in 4 and Saudi Arabia in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Kuwait | Saudi Arabia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50,719 USD | 51,542 USD | 822.98 USD | Saudi Arabia |
| 1980s | 20,804 USD | 35,800 USD | 14,995 USD | Saudi Arabia |
| 1990s | 27,983 USD | 24,194 USD | 3,788 USD | Kuwait |
| 2000s | 36,338 USD | 20,896 USD | 15,443 USD | Kuwait |
| 2010s | 30,275 USD | 22,253 USD | 8,023 USD | Kuwait |
| 2020s | 25,157 USD | 23,294 USD | 1,864 USD | Kuwait |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross domestic product — value us$ per capita, 2015 prices, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia?
- Saudi Arabia, at 23,265 USD against 23,150 USD in Kuwait as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross domestic product — value us$ per capita, 2015 prices between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia?
- 115 USD, with Saudi Arabia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Kuwait and Saudi Arabia rank globally for gross domestic product — value us$ per capita, 2015 prices?
- Kuwait ranks 50th and Saudi Arabia ranks 49th of 195 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Domestic Product — Value US$ per capita, 2015 prices. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).