Relationship dossier
India
Kuwait
Relationship assessment
India and Kuwait maintain a broad partnership, elevated to a strategic partnership in 2024.
India toward Kuwait
+45The Indian government has pursued cooperation with Kuwait through bilateral agreements and high-level engagement, including agreements concluded during the Emir of Kuwait’s 2024 visit to India. India also supplied COVID-19 vaccines to Kuwait.
Kuwait toward India
+45The Kuwaiti government supplied medical oxygen to India during the COVID-19 crisis. Kuwait’s Emir visited India in 2024, when the two governments elevated the relationship to a strategic partnership and concluded agreements across several fields.
Overall relationship
+50The relationship rests on sustained practical cooperation in energy, trade and labor, reinforced by official agreements and high-level engagement. The 2024 strategic partnership elevation and Kuwait’s pandemic-era oxygen assistance to India illustrate cooperation extending beyond routine diplomatic contact.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
India and Kuwait maintain a broad, cooperative relationship involving energy, trade, labor and official exchanges. Their governments elevated ties to a strategic partnership during the Emir of Kuwait’s 2024 visit to India and concluded agreements in several areas. Kuwait also supplied medical oxygen to India during the COVID-19 crisis, while India provided vaccine support to Kuwait. The relationship includes sustained practical cooperation alongside its high-level diplomatic engagement.
Key developments
Kuwait supplied medical oxygen to India during the COVID-19 crisis.
India supplied COVID-19 vaccines to Kuwait.
During the Emir of Kuwait’s visit to India, the governments elevated their relationship to a strategic partnership and concluded agreements in several fields.
Major uncertainties
- The implementation and scope of agreements concluded during the 2024 strategic partnership visit are unclear.
- The extent of ongoing government cooperation on Indian workers’ conditions in Kuwait is uncertain.