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Kuwait - Introduction 1993
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Background: Kuwait was attacked and overrun by Iraq on 2 August 1990. Following several weeks of aerial bombardment a US-led UN coalition began a ground assault on 23 February 1991 that completely liberated Kuwait in four days. Kuwait has spent more than $5 billion dollars to repair oil infrastructure damaged during 1990-91.


Kuwait - Geography 1993
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Location:
Middle East, at the head of the Persian Gulf, between Iraq and
Saudi Arabia


Geographic coordinates

Map referenceAfrica, Middle East, Standard Time Zones of the World

Area
Total: 17,820 km²
Land: 17,820 km²

Land boundaries: total 464 km, Iraq 242 km, Saudi Arabia 222 km

Coastline: 499 km
Continental shelf: not specified
Territorial sea: 12 nm

Maritime claims

Climate: dry desert; intensely hot summers; short, cool winters

Terrain: flat to slightly undulating desert plain

Elevation

Natural resources: petroleum, fish, shrimp, natural gas
Land use

Land use
Arable land: 0%
Permanent crops: 0%
Meadows and pastures: 8%
Other: 92%

Irrigated land: 20 km² (1989 est.)

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Kuwait - People 1993
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Population: 1,698,077 (July 1993 est.)
Growth rate: 8.67% (1993 est.)

Nationality
Noun: Kuwaiti(s)
Adjective: Kuwaiti

Ethnic groups: Kuwaiti 45%, other Arab 35%, South Asian 9%, Iranian 4%, other 7%

Languages: Arabic (official), English widely spoken

Religions:
Muslim 85% (Shi'a 30%, Sunni 45%, other 10%), Christian, Hindu,
Parsi, and other 15%


Demographic profile
Age structure

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate: 8.67% (1993 est.)

Birth rate: 30.29 births/1000 population (1993 est.)

Death rate: 2.39 deaths/1000 population (1993 est.)

Net migration rate: 58.74 migrant(s)/1000 population (1993 est.)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues: some of world's largest and most sophisticated desalination facilities provide most of water; air and water pollution; desertification
Current issues note: strategic location at head of Persian Gulf

Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 13.1 deaths/1000 live births (1993 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
Total population: 74.62 years
Male: 72.47 years
Female: 76.87 years (1993 est.)

Total fertility rate: 4.11 children born/woman (1993 est.)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
Total population: 73%
Male: 77%
Female: 67%

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Kuwait - Government 1993
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Country name
Conventional long form: State of Kuwait
Conventional short form: Kuwait
Local long form: Dawlat al Kuwayt
Local short form: Al Kuwayt

Government type: nominal constitutional monarchy

Capital: Kuwait

Administrative divisions: 5 governorates (mu'hafaz'at, singular - muh'afaz'ah; Al Ah'madi, Al Jahrah, Al Kuwayt, 'Hawalli; Farwaniyah

Dependent areas

Independence: 19 June 1961 (from UK)

National holiday: National Day, 25 February

Constitution: 16 November 1962 (some provisions suspended since 29 August 1962)

Legal system: civil law system with Islamic law significant in personal matters; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: adult males who resided in Kuwait before 1920 and their male descendants at age 21

Executive branch: amir, prime minister, deputy prime minister, Council of Ministers (cabinet)

Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly (Majlis al 'umma) dissolved 3 July 1986; elections for new Assembly held 5 October 1992

Judicial branch: High Court of Appeal Chief of State: Amir Shaykh JABIR al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah (since 31 December 1977) Head of Government: Prime Minister and Crown Prince SA'D al-'Abdallah al-Salim al-Sabah (since 8 February 1978; Deputy Prime Minister SABAH al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah (since 17 October 1992)

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation:
ABEDA, AfDB, AFESD, AL, AMF, BDEAC, CAEU, ESCWA, FAO, G-77,
GATT, GCC, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT,
INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITU, LORCS, NAM, OAPEC, OIC,
OPEC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WMO, WTO


Diplomatic representation
In the us chief of mission: Ambassador Muhammad al-Sabah al-Salim al-SABAH
In the us chancery: 2,940 Tilden Street NW, Washington, DC 20,008
In the us telephone: (202) 966-0702
From the us chief of mission: Ambassador Edward (Skip) GNEHM, Jr.
From the us embassy:
Bneid al-Gar (opposite the Kuwait International Hotel), Kuwait
City

From the us mailing address: P.O. Box 77 SAFAT, 13,001 SAFAT, Kuwait; APO AE 9,880
From the us telephone: 965 242-4,151 through 4,159
From the us fax: 956 244-2,855

Flag descriptionflag of Kuwait: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and red with a black trapezoid based on the hoist side

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


Kuwait - Economy 1993
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Economy overview: Kuwait is a small and relatively open economy with proven crude oil reserves of about 94 billion barrels - 10% of world reserves. Kuwait is rebuilding its war-ravaged petroleum sector and the increase in crude oil production to nearly 2.0 million barrels per day by the end of 1992 led to an enormous increase in GDP for the year. The government ran a cumulative fiscal deficit of approximately $70 billion over its last two fiscal years, reducing its foreign asset position and increasing its public debt to roughly $40 billion. Petroleum accounts for nearly half of GDP and over 90% of export and government revenue.

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate: 80% (1992 est.)

Real gdp per capita: $11,100 (1992 est.)

Gross national saving
Gdp composition by sector of origin

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products: practically none; dependent on imports for food; about 75% of potable water must be distilled or imported

Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, desalination, food processing, building materials, salt, construction

Industrial production growth rate: growth rate NA%; accounts for NA% of GDP

Labor force: 566,000 (1986)
By occupation services: 45.0%
By occupation construction: 20.0%
By occupation trade: 12.0%
By occupation :

70%oflaborforcewasnon-Kuwaiti(1986)

Labor force

Unemployment rate: NEGL% (1992 est.) capital expenditures of $3.1 billion (FY88)

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports: $750 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
Commodoties: oil
Partners: France 16%, Italy 15%, Japan 12%, UK 11%

Imports: $4.7 billion (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
Commodoties: food, construction materials, vehicles and parts, clothing
Partners: US 35%, Japan 12%, UK 9%, Canada 9%

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: Kuwaiti dinars (KD) per US$1 - 0.3044 (January 1993), 0.2934 (1992), 0.2843 (1991), 0.2915 (1990), 0.2937 (1989), 0.2790 (1988)


Kuwait - Energy 1993
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Electricity
Production:
6,873,000 kW available out of 7,398,000 kW capacity due to
Persian Gulf war; 12,264 million kWh produced, 8,890 kWh per capita (1992)


Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Kuwait - Communication 1993
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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Kuwait - Military 1993
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Military expenditures
Percent of gdp: exchange rate conversion - $2.5 billion, 7.3% of GDP (FY92/93)

Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Kuwait - Transportation 1993
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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports: 7
With permanentsurface runways: 4
With runways over 3659 m: 0
With runways 2440-3659 m: 4
With runways 1220-2439 m: 0

Heliports

Pipelines: crude oil 877 km; petroleum products 40 km; natural gas 165 km

Railways

Roadways

Waterways

Merchant marine:
42 ships (1,000 GRT or over), totaling 1,996,052
GRT/3,373,088 DWT; includes 7 cargo, 4 livestock carrier, 24 oil tanker, 4 liquefied gas, 3 container


Ports and terminals


Kuwait - Transnational issues 1993
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Disputes international:
in April 1991 Iraq officially accepted UN Security
Council Resolution 687, which demands that Iraq accept the inviolability of the boundary set forth in its 1963 agreement with Kuwait, ending earlier claims to Bubiyan and Warbah Islands, or to all of Kuwait; the 20 May 1993 final report of the UN Iraq/Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission was welcomed by the Security Council in Resolution 833 of 27 May 1993, which also reaffirmed that the decisions of the commission on the boundary were final, bringing to a completion the official demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait boundary;
Iraqi officials still make public statements claiming Kuwait; ownership of
Qaruh and Umm al Maradim Islands disputed by Saudi Arabia


Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs


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