90 BILLION DINARS PAID BY KUWAIT IN SALARIES AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT IN 12 YEARS

  • 21/06/2021

Kuwait City : Official figures and data revealed that in 12 years, Kuwait paid about KD 89.722 billion (about USD 300 billion), in the form of salaries for ministries and government departments, in addition to insurance contributions, support for national employment, and social care.the figures show that the government spent within the budgets of Chapter One, which includes 10 items, about  KD 42.78 billion on the salaries of ministries and government departments from the fiscal year 2004/2005 to 2015/2016.It is noted that the salaries of ministries and government departments amounted in the fiscal year 2004/2005 to about KD 1.754 billion, which is the lowest cost between the allocated period.


The cost of the public treasury’s contribution to social insurance ranked second, reaching  KD 14.666 billion during the 12 years, constituting about 16.3 percent of the total expenditures for this period. The cost of the first year of the observed period amounted to KD 539 million, while it jumped In the 2015/2016 fiscal year, it amounted to KD 1.78 billion, which means, in accounting, that it doubled about 3.3 times between the two fiscal years.

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