COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Saudi Arabia Employment Rate
Saudi Arabia employment rate: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63,12 | 0,21 |
| 2024 | 62,91 | 0,19 |
| 2023 | 62,72 | 2,48 |
| 2022 | 60,24 | 0,93 |
| 2021 | 59,31 | 1,67 |
| 2020 | 57,63 | -0,12 |
| 2019 | 57,75 | 1,92 |
| 2018 | 55,84 | 0,32 |
| 2017 | 55,52 | -1,77 |
| 2016 | 57,29 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Employment to population ratio is the proportion of a country's population that is employed.
Source organization: ILO Modelled Estimates database (ILOEST), International Labour Organization (ILO), uri: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/, publisher: ILOSTAT, type: external database, date accessed: January 17, 2026
Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 01:35:16. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesSaudi Arabia recorded 63,12 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the employment rate increased by 0,21.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 59,23; the minimum was 55,52 in 2017 and the maximum was 63,12 in 2025.
Saudi Arabia ranks 49 out of 187 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.
It is also above the available average for the High income group.
Share of working-age population employed.