Private bank lending in Kuwait increase 5.45% year-on-year in May 2026 to KWD 51.5 million from KWD 48.8 million in May 2025. Loan Growth in Kuwait averaged 12.22 percent from 1994 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 43.80 percent in December of 1995 and a record low of 0.60 percent in May of 2011. source: Central Bank of Kuwait
Loan Growth in Kuwait is expected to be 7.20 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Kuwait Loan Growth is projected to trend around 5.00 percent in 2027 and 4.00 percent in 2028, according to our econometric models.