Congo vs Kuwait: World population growth

Congo

0.7%

in 2100

Kuwait

0.8%

in 2100

Congo rank

9th

Kuwait rank

6th

World population growth over time

Congo
Kuwait

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.8% against 0.7% in Congo, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.2 times Congo's.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 163 shared years of data; in 1700 it was Congo ahead.

Congo ranks 9th and Kuwait ranks 6th of 238 countries.

Individual pages

World population growth in Congo
World population growth in Kuwait
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: World population growth
Unit: %
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 38,302 data points, 1700–2100
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Average exponential rate of growth of the population over a given period. It is calculated as ln(P2/P1) where P1 and P2 are the populations on subsequent years. Available from 1700 to 2100, based on data and estimates from different sources.