Kuwait's life expectancy rose from 76.0 yrs in 1995 to 84.6 yrs in 2024.
Kuwait · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Kuwait's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 67.3 yrs in 2000 to 67.8 yrs in 2021.
Kuwait's infant mortality fell from 12.2 ‰ in 1995 to 7.0 ‰ in 2024.
Kuwait's under-5 mortality rate fell from 14.6 ‰ in 1995 to 8.1 ‰ in 2024.
Kuwait's maternal mortality ratio fell from 10.0 /100k in 1994 to 8.0 /100k in 2023.
Kuwait's ncd mortality fell from 17.4 % in 2000 to 9.3 % in 2021.
Kuwait's suicide mortality rate fell from 3.2 /100k in 2000 to 2.3 /100k in 2021.
Kuwait's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 26.1 /100k in 2000 to 15.4 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.8 pts127th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)down −0.3 %47th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)down −0.7 pts25th of 192
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- Physiciansup +8.9 %68th of 138*
- Nurses and midwivesdown −8.3 %60th of 131*
- Hospital bedsup +16.5 %78th of 132*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts20th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −9.1 %59th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
- Safe sanitationunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 141