RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s economy grew by 4.5 percent in 2025 thanks to improvements in government, non-oil, and oil-related sectors. Growth was accelerated by increased crude production and stable domestic demand.
Real gross domestic product growth reached 5% year over year in the fourth quarter, according to data issued by the General Authority for Statistics. This came at the end of a year in which non-oil sectors climbed by 4.9% and oil activities increased by 5.7%. Additionally, government activity increased by 0.9 percent over the prior year.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, the Kingdom’s non-oil exports reached $25.9 billion, the highest quarterly figure ever recorded. This is a 114 percent increase from the first quarter of 2017, when Saudi Arabia started releasing the data.
The Kingdom’s Vision 2030 program, which intends to diversify the economy by lowering reliance on crude oil revenues and raising the share of non-oil exports to non-oil gross domestic product to 50% by the end of the decade, has made headway, as evidenced by the increase in non-oil exports.
Oil activities contributed 1.4 percentage points to real GDP growth in 2025, while non-oil activities contributed 2.8 percentage points.” Net product taxes and government operations contributed 0.2 and 0.1 percentage points, respectively, according to GASTAT.
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