Saudi Arabia Unemployment Rate
The share of the labour force who want a job and are actively looking but can't find one, all residents, as the International Labour Organization estimates it each year.
3.0%
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1991 to 2025
Source: World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · unemployment, total, ILO modelled estimate, annual. GASTAT's quarterly survey figures are not yet in a database this site can read.
Saudi Arabia Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Saudi Arabia, the unemployment rate fell by 0.5pp in 2025, from 3.5% in 2024.
That is the lowest reading in a record that starts in 1991.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 3.0% in 2025 to 7.7% in 2020.
Its average since 1991 is 5.6%, and the latest reading is below that.
Saudi Arabia is 36th of 43 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- World Bank
- Series
- SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
GASTAT's own quarterly survey rate for the total population is close to this; the rate for Saudi nationals alone, which Vision 2030 targets refer to, is considerably higher.
Data refreshed 2026-10-09. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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