Kuwait
Overall Score, 2024
0.25
out of
5
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Country-specific presentation slides display the findings from the Cigarette Tax Scorecard.
DownloadOverall Score
2024
Kuwait's overall score is lower than the average score of its region, income group, and the global average. There is ample room for improvement in its cigarette tax system.
Component Score
2024
Kuwait scores poorly in price, affordability change, tax share, and tax structure. Kuwait would greatly benefit from increasing cigarette prices, reducing cigarette affordability, increasing tax share of price, and improving tax structure.
Scores Over Time
Kuwait's overall score decreased between 2016 and 2024, after an increase in 2016. The country has not been able to reduce cigarette affordability since 2022.
