COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Saudi Arabia Foreign Reserves
Saudi Arabia foreign reserves: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
FI.RES.TOTL.CD| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 505,16 bn | 41,29 bn |
| 2024 | 463,87 bn | 5,92 bn |
| 2023 | 457,95 bn | -20,28 bn |
| 2022 | 478,23 bn | 4,34 bn |
| 2021 | 473,89 bn | 1,04 bn |
| 2020 | 472,85 bn | -42,11 bn |
| 2019 | 514,96 bn | 5,49 bn |
| 2018 | 509,47 bn | 11,43 m |
| 2017 | 509,46 bn | -37,81 bn |
| 2016 | 547,27 bn | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Reserve assets are external assets, including monetary gold, that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other related purposes (such as maintaining confidence in the currency and the economy, and serving as a basis for foreign borrowing). Reserve assets must be denominated and settled in foreign currency. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Source organization: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 01:25:12. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesSaudi Arabia recorded 505,16 bn current US$ in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the foreign reserves increased by 41,29 bn.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 493,31 bn; the minimum was 457,95 bn in 2023 and the maximum was 547,27 bn in 2016.
Saudi Arabia ranks 8 out of 177 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.
External liquidity buffer.