Kuwait vs Uganda: Number of people living in cities with more than 1 million residents

Kuwait
3.70 million people
in 2020
Uganda
4.23 million people
in 2020
Kuwait rank
66th
Uganda rank
63rd

Number of people living in cities with more than 1 million residents over time

  • Kuwait
  • Uganda
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How they compare

Uganda currently reports 4.23 million people against 3.70 million people in Kuwait, a difference of 535,910 people.

That makes Uganda's figure about 1.1 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 15 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Uganda ahead.

Kuwait ranks 66th and Uganda ranks 63rd of 182 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Number of people living in cities with more than 1 million residents
Unit
people
Source
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
182 places, 2,532 data points, 1950–2020
Last refreshed

Total population living in cities with 1 million or more people. City boundaries are defined using a consistent global approach based on satellite imagery and population data.