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Kuwait: Inflation

Percent · 1970–2025 · 56 observations · forecasts to 2031 · infl

2025
2.36%percent
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 2.90%
Average, 2016–2025
2.35%10 years
Record high and low
15.8% (1990)low −0.323% (1992)

Inflation

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20311.63Forecast
20301.74Forecast
20291.89Forecast
20282.17Forecast
20272.49Forecast
20262.75Forecast
20252.36
20242.90
20233.64
20224.06
20213.42
20201.00
20191.10
20180.57
20171.51
20162.96

Sources

  • World Bank (inflation)1970–2024
  • WDI (archive)1973–1997
  • Mitchell1973–2009
  • Clio Infra1973–2010
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1973–2025
  • World Development Indicators1973–2025
  • Bank for International Settlements2007–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2014–2020
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2014–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Kuwait documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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