Saudi Arabia GDP Growth Rate
How much the economy grew or shrank compared with the previous three months, in real terms.
−4.8%
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Q2 2010 to Q2 2026
Source: OECD quarterly national accounts (GASTAT) · real GDP, change on the previous quarter, seasonally adjusted.
Saudi Arabia GDP Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Saudi Arabia, the GDP growth rate fell by 7.2pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 2.4% in Q2 2025.
It is the lowest reading since Q2 2020.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −4.8% in Q2 2026 to 4.2% in Q1 2022.
Its average since Q2 2010 is 0.9%, and the latest reading is below that.
Saudi Arabia is 6th of 33 countries in our GDP Growth Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- quarterly
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Oil output moves it sharply: in the second quarter of 2026 oil activities fell by about a quarter on a year earlier as crude exports were disrupted.
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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