Official Languages

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Languages spoken here

Amharic (secondary) · Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (secondary) · Bengali (secondary) · Central Kurdish (secondary) · Egyptian Arabic (secondary) · French (secondary) · French (Quebec) (secondary) · Gulf Arabic (secondary) · Hindi (secondary) · Indonesian (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Malayalam (secondary) · Mehri (secondary) · Nepali (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Urdu (secondary) · Urdu (Latin translit.) (secondary) · Western Armenian (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Kuwait

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Arab, Arabic Gulf Spoken	1567000	Arabic, Gulf	Islam
South Asian, general	741000	Hindi	Hinduism
Arab, Egyptian general	482000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
South Asian, Bengali-speaking	355000	Bengali	Islam
Malayali	324000	Malayalam	Hinduism
Arab, Saudi - Najdi	304000	Arabic, Najdi	Islam
Filipino, Tagalog	214000	Tagalog	Christianity
Arab, Syrian	197000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Amhara, Ethiopian	112000	Amharic	Christianity
Muhamasheen, Akhdam	79000	Arabic, Gulf	Islam
Urdu	72000	Urdu	Islam
Persian	65000	Persian, Iranian	Islam
Arab, Lebanese general	63000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Nepali, general	63000	Nepali	Hinduism
Arab, Sudanese	50000	Arabic, Sudanese	Islam
Arab, Palestinian	41000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, Jordanian	39000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Mahra	32000	Mehri	Islam
Indonesian	29000	Indonesian	Islam
Arab, Omani	25000	Arabic, Omani	Islam
Arab, Iraqi	23000	Arabic, Mesopotamian	Islam
Punjabi	22000	Punjabi, Eastern	Islam
Americans, U.S.	20000	English	Christianity
Arab, Yemeni	17000	Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni	Islam
British	13000	English	Christianity
Turk	12000	Turkish	Islam
French	9800	French	Christianity
Assyrian	9700	Assyrian Neo-Aramaic	Christianity
Armenian	9300	Armenian, Western	Christianity
Kurd, Sorani	7500	Kurdish, Central	Islam
Han Chinese, Mandarin	5900	Chinese, Mandarin	Non-Religious

Languages

26 languages recorded here.

Amharic

Arabic, Egyptian

Arabic, Gulf

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Mesopotamian

Arabic, Najdi

Arabic, Omani

Arabic, Sudanese

Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni

Armenian, Western

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Bengali

Chinese, Mandarin

English

French

Hindi

Indonesian

Kurdish, Central

Malayalam

Mehri

Nepali

Persian, Iranian

Punjabi, Eastern

Tagalog

Turkish

Urdu

All catalogue fields

155 fields recorded

rog3: KU
iso3: KWT
iso2: KW
ctry: Kuwait
poplpeoples: 5000000
cntpeoples: 31
cntpeopleslr: 17
poplpeopleslr: 3472000
jpscalectry: 2
rol3officiallanguage: arb
officiallang: Arabic, Standard
rlg3primary: 6
religionprimary: Islam
percentchristianity: 10.456199501454
percentevangelical: 1.6087815098171
c_10_40window: Y
rog2: ASI
continent: Asia
regioncode: 6
regionname: Africa, North and Middle East
workersneeded: 73
harvest_rog3: KU
harvest_iso3: KWT
harvest_iso2: KW
harvest_owcountrycode: KUWA
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: KW
harvest_countrynumber: 114
harvest_ctry: Kuwait
harvest_ctryshort: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamechinese: 科威特
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 科威特
harvest_countrynamedutch: Koeweit
harvest_countrynamefrench: Koweït
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Koweït
harvest_countrynamegerman: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Kuwait
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Kuwait
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Kuwait
harvest_countrynameitalian: Kuwait
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamekorean: 쿠웨이트
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 쿠웨이트
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Kuwait
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Kuwait
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamerussian: Кувейт
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Кувейт
harvest_countrynamespanish: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Kuwait
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Kuwait
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: du
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: no
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: N
harvest_rog2: ASI
harvest_regioncode2414: 15
harvest_regioncode: 6
harvest_unsr: 145
harvest_worldabc: B
harvest_capital: Kuwait City
harvest_population: 5026000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/kuwait.html
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-ku.pdf
harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/kuwait
harvest_jpscale: 2
harvest_c_10_40window: Y
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: Y
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank: 32
harvest_bibleshortagerank: 51
harvest_bibleaccessurl: https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/KW_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang: 1.5
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harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 7.3000002
harvest_owcountrypage: kuwait
harvest_literacyrate: 94
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 100
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: arb
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: afb
harvest_rlg3primary: 6
harvest_pctanimist: 0
harvest_pctbahai: 0.02
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0.65
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 3.3
harvest_pctislam: 81.64
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0
harvest_pctnonreligious: 0.6
harvest_pctother: 0
harvest_pctchristian: 13.79
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 0.91
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 0.42
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0.04
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 9.24
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 3.08
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 0.1
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A001
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.8
harvest_hdirank: 51
harvest_internetusers: 78.40000000000001
harvest_flashmapzoom: 1018
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -562
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -355
harvest_googlemapzoom: 7
harvest_googlemaplat: 29.3375
harvest_googlemaplng: 47.6581
harvest_ctrylatitude: 29.31166
harvest_ctrylongitude: 47.481766
harvest_securitylevel: 2
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/kuwait/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 204
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 2.320938357873721
harvest_v59country: Y
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=kw&joshua=ku
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-kuwait
harvest_internetusage: 100
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2018
harvest_voiceofmartyrsurl: https://www.persecution.com/globalprayerguide/kuwait/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 6880
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 17818
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 309
harvest_countryphonecode: 965
harvest_wincountryprofile: http://win1040.com/page.php?id=564
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 7.5
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 0.23
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 3
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 0.1
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 8.17
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 0.6
harvest_stonyground: Y
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .kw
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/kuwait
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00