Kuwait vs Oman: Population

Kuwait

4.84 million people

in 2023

Oman

5.05 million people

in 2023

Kuwait rank

128th

Oman rank

126th

Population over time

Oman currently reports 5.05 million people against 4.84 million people in Kuwait, a difference of 210,490 people.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Oman ahead.

Kuwait ranks 128th and Oman ranks 126th 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.