(2007)

Transportation
Kuwait

Airports:

7 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 4
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 2 (2007)

Heliports:

4 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 269 km; oil 540 km; refined products 57 km (2007)

Roadways:

total: 5,749 km
paved: 4,887 km
unpaved: 862 km (2004)

Merchant marine:

total: 38
by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 1, carrier 3, container 6, liquefied
gas 4, petroleum tanker 22
registered in other countries: 34 (Bahrain 5, Comoros 1, Libya 1,
Panama 2, Qatar 7, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1, Saudi Arabia 7, UAE 10)
(2008)

Ports and terminals:

Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd
Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi

Military
Kuwait

Military branches:

Land Forces, Kuwaiti Navy, Kuwaiti Air Force (Al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya
al-Kuwaitiya), National Guard (2007)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
reserve obligation to age 40 with 1 month annual training; women
have served in police forces since 1999 (2006)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 1,032,408
females age 16-49: 568,657 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 892,816
females age 16-49: 500,540 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 17,737
female: 18,519 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

5.3% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Kuwait

Disputes - international:

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia continue negotiating a joint maritime
boundary with Iran; no maritime boundary exists with Iraq in the
Persian Gulf

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Kuwait is a destination country for men and women
who migrate legally from South and Southeast Asia for domestic or
low-skilled labor, but are subjected to conditions of involuntary
servitude by employers in Kuwait including conditions of physical
and sexual abuse, non-payment of wages, confinement to the home, and
withholding of passports to restrict their freedom of movement;
Kuwait is reportedly a transit point for South and East Asian
workers recruited for low-skilled work in Iraq; some of these
workers are deceived as to the true location and nature of this
work, and others are subjected to conditions of involuntary
se