Kuwait vs Mauritania: Has the population peaked?

Kuwait

4.84 million people

in 2023

Mauritania

5.02 million people

in 2023

Kuwait rank

128th

Mauritania rank

127th

Has the population peaked? over time

Mauritania currently reports 5.02 million people against 4.84 million people in Kuwait, a difference of 183,660 people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Mauritania ahead.

Kuwait ranks 128th and Mauritania ranks 127th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Has the population peaked?
Unit: people
Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The total population, measured on 1 July of the year shown.