World Bank · Labor

Kuwait: Wage and salaried workers, total

96.84percent · 2025-2.0% since 2015

Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Kuwait from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202596.839
202496.905
202397.072
202297.299
202197.186
202097.25
201997.789
201897.993
201798.107
201698.18
201598.845
201498.845
201398.876
201298.852
201198.733
201098.514
200998.456
200898.648
200798.169
200697.807
200597.262
200496.984
200396.739
200296.557
200196.617
200096.671
199996.503
199896.367
199796.414
199696.269
199595.86
199495.401
199394.908
199294.226
199193.555

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wage-and-salaried-workers-total (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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