Economy of Kuwait - Other Statistics

Other Statistics

Investment (gross fixed): 6.6% of GDP (2005 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

• lowest 10%: NA
• highest 10%: NA

Agriculture - products: practically no crops; fish

Industrial production growth rate: -5% (2002 est.)

Electricity:

• production: 38.19 billion kWh (2003)
• consumption: 35.52 billion kWh (2003)
• exports: 0 kWh (2002)
• imports: 0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:

• fossil fuel: 100%
• hydro: 0%
• other: 0% (2001)
• nuclear: 0%

Oil:

• production: 2,418,000 bbl/d (384,400 m3/d) (2005 est.)
• consumption: 400,000 bbl/d (64,000 m3/d) (2006 est.)
• exports: 2.57 million barrels per day (409×10^3 m3/d) (2008)
• imports: NA
• proved reserves: 105.0 billion barrels (16.69×10^9 m3) (2005 est.), including the divided zone.

Natural gas:

• production: 8.3 billion cu m (2003 est.)
• consumption: 8.3 billion cu m (2003 est.)
• exports: 0 m³ (2002 est.)
• imports: 0 m³ (2002 est.)
• proved reserves: 1.572 trillion cu m (2005)

Current account balance: $31.51 billion (2005 est.)

Exports - commodities: oil and refined products, fertilizers

Imports - commodities: food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold: $9.296 billion (2005 est.)

Exchange rates: Kuwaiti dinars per US dollar - 0.3014 (2004), 0.298 (2003), 0.3039 (2002), 0.3067 (2001), 0.3068 (2000)