Costa Rica vs Kuwait: Population

Costa Rica

5.11 million people

in 2023

Kuwait

4.84 million people

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

125th

Kuwait rank

128th

Population over time

Costa Rica currently reports 5.11 million people against 4.84 million people in Kuwait, a difference of 266,750 people.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.1 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 125th and Kuwait ranks 128th of 238 countries.

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
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, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.