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Saudi Arabia: Imports of goods and services
The value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world, as a percentage of GDP.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- World Bank
- Period covered
- 1968 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- Saudi Arabia
- Sector
- Whole economy (not a single sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimate% of GDP · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 28.2
- +1.2 pp vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- +4.5 pp
- since 20202
- 10-year change
- −7.5 pp
- since 20152
- Record high
- 47.7
- 19833
- Record low
- 13.2
- 19743
- Where the latest ranks
- 52nd pct.
- Higher than 52% of the other 57 observations since 19684
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
The value of all goods and other market services received from the rest of the world, as a percentage of GDP. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.IMP.GNFS.ZS?locations=SAU
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28.2 | +1.16 pp |
| 2024 | 27 | +1.98 pp |
| 2023 | 25 | +4.2 pp |
| 2022 | 20.8 | −0.89 pp |
| 2021 | 21.7 | −2 pp |
| 2020 | 23.7 | −0.91 pp |
| 2019 | 24.6 | +1.05 pp |
| 2018 | 23.6 | −3.59 pp |
| 2017 | 27.2 | −1.61 pp |
| 2016 | 28.8 | −6.89 pp |
| 2015 | 35.7 | +2.76 pp |
| 2014 | 32.9 | +3.03 pp |
| 2013 | 29.9 | +1.26 pp |
| 2012 | 28.6 | −0.47 pp |
| 2011 | 29.1 | −3.89 pp |
| 2010 | 33 | −4.79 pp |
| 2009 | 37.8 | +3.78 pp |
| 2008 | 34 | −0.93 pp |
| 2007 | 34.9 | +4.81 pp |
| 2006 | 30.1 | +5.21 pp |
| 2005 | 24.9 | +0.81 pp |
| 2004 | 24.1 | +0.12 pp |
| 2003 | 24 | +0.33 pp |
| 2002 | 23.6 | −0.28 pp |