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Saudi Arabia: Population
All residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, mid-year estimate.
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
- 1960 – 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 estimatePeople · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 36,973,555
- +4.7% vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- +17.2%
- since 2020, +3.2% a year2
- 10-year change
- +24.0%
- since 2015, +2.2% a year2
- Record high
- 36,973,555
- 20253
- Record low
- 2,435,403
- 19603
- Where the latest ranks
- 100th pct.
- Higher than 100% of the other 65 observations since 19604
- 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; the yearly rate is the compound annual growth rate over the span.
- 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
All residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, mid-year estimate. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series SP.POP.TOTL. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=SAU
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36,973,555 | +4.7% |
| 2024 | 35,300,280 | +4.7% |
| 2023 | 33,702,731 | +4.7% |
| 2022 | 32,175,224 | +4.5% |
| 2021 | 30,784,383 | −2.4% |
| 2020 | 31,552,510 | +5.0% |
| 2019 | 30,063,799 | −0.4% |
| 2018 | 30,196,281 | −2.5% |
| 2017 | 30,977,355 | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 30,954,198 | +3.8% |
| 2015 | 29,816,382 | +5.3% |
| 2014 | 28,309,273 | +2.5% |
| 2013 | 27,624,004 | +5.6% |
| 2012 | 26,168,861 | +4.3% |
| 2011 | 25,091,867 | +4.6% |
| 2010 | 23,978,487 | −1.0% |
| 2009 | 24,217,654 | +4.0% |
| 2008 | 23,287,877 | +4.1% |
| 2007 | 22,368,313 | +4.2% |
| 2006 | 21,459,144 | +4.4% |
| 2005 | 20,559,890 | +4.5% |
| 2004 | 19,669,480 | +4.7% |
| 2003 | 18,786,767 | +4.9% |
| 2002 | 17,910,910 | +5.1% |