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IndicatorSAUSaudi ArabiaMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.18rank #142
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile63.1rank #45
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.07rank #138
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.11rank #138
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.09rank #139
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile66.6rank #47
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.18rank #142
Military spending% GDP7.3%rank #4
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.03rank #153
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile65.1rank #108
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile66.1rank #44
Rule of Law0-100 percentile60.6rank #87
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.4rank #93
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.02rank #152
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.05rank #145
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile29.8rank #185
Women in parliament% seats19.9%rank #114
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.35rank #139
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment2.5%rank #149
Agriculture value added% GDP2.6%rank #119
Annual working hours per workerhours2,124.5rank #44
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker480,846.5rank #21
Current account balance% GDP-2.6%rank #59
Employment-to-population ratio%63%rank #47
FDI net inflows% GDP2.6%rank #33
GDPcurrent US$1.28Trank #19
GDP growth%4.5%rank #56
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$34,536.7rank #35
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $63,051rank #20
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $50,298.9rank #30
Government expenditure% GDP24.2%rank #52
Gross capital formation% GDP31.6%rank #16
Gross savings% GDP28.9%rank #16
High-technology exports% manuf. exports0.54%rank #116
Human capital indexindex2.7rank #78
Industry value added% GDP43%rank #11
Inflation%2.1%rank #58
Labour force participation rate%64.9%rank #58
Personal remittances received% GDP0.03%rank #93
R&D expenditure% GDP0.64%rank #7
Researchers in R&Dper million1,234.7rank #11
Tax revenue% GDP8.1%rank #83
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.78rank #40
Trade openness% GDP57.9%rank #94
Unemployment% labor force3%rank #40
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%2.9%rank #38
Vulnerable employment% employment1.7%rank #4
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2410%rank #71
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2410%rank #71
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99%rank #50
Basic sanitation access% pop97.6%rank #62
Child mortalityper 1000.6rank #29
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,659.8rank #13
DTP3 immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Health spending% GDP5.7%rank #112
Infant mortalityper 1k births4.7rank #24
Life expectancyyears79rank #57
Maternal mortalityper 100k7rank #7
Measles immunization% children96%rank #4
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Physiciansper 1k3.4rank #15
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m373.5rank #199
Road traffic deathsper 100k35.9rank #134
Smoking prevalence% adults14.7%rank #46
Suicide mortality rateper 100k0.95rank #9
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k8.4rank #39
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births6rank #51
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Adult literacy%97.9%rank #6
Education spending% GDP4.5%rank #40
Expected years of schoolingyears16.9rank #24
Mean years of schoolingyears11.6rank #52
Primary completion rate% relevant age99.4%rank #30
Primary enrollment% gross104%rank #39
Secondary enrollment% gross110.7%rank #14
Tertiary enrollment% gross83.9%rank #14
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00016.5rank #91
Fertility ratebirths/woman2.3rank #84
Median age of populationyears29.2rank #119
Net migration rateper 1,0009.8rank #23
Populationpeople36.97Mrank #43
Population growth%4.6%rank #2
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years84rank #54
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands47,693.9rank #44
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age36.8rank #209
Urban population%84.6%rank #36
Climate
CO₂ emissionst692.13Mrank #8
CO₂ per capitat20.4rank #6
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from solar% generation1.8%rank #111
Electricity from wind% generation0.35%rank #91
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita11,910.6rank #11
Forest area% land0.45%rank #200
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita23.1rank #181
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh692rank #175
Renewable electricity%2.2%rank #167
Renewable energy share%0.1%rank #170
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e779.2rank #181
Society
Asylum seekerspeople385rank #48
Female labor participation%33.6%rank #160
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10044.1rank #15
Gender Development Indexratio0.93rank #74
Gender Inequality Index0-10.23rank #55
Homicide rateper 100k0.94rank #36
Human Development Index0-10.9rank #28
Internet users% pop100%rank #1
Life satisfaction0-106.8rank #20
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.67rank #68
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #6
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #3
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #8
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #19
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people448rank #131
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people2,368rank #87
Youth NEET rate%16.3%rank #80
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year5rank #3
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths5rank #5
Hazard & exposure0-104.5rank #39
Human hazard & exposure0-105.4rank #44
INFORM risk score0-102.7rank #16
Lack of coping capacity0-102.4rank #16
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.5rank #12
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-103.3rank #16
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.5rank #22
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year5rank #6
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.8rank #9
Vulnerability0-101.9rank #9
Vulnerable groups0-102.9rank #24
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