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Saudi Arabia

36,973,555

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.67M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+128.5%from 16.18M
Life expectancy79.0 years2024
Fertility rate2.31births per woman · 2024
Urban population84.6%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanHigh income

A country at every age

How Saudi Arabia is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1423.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6473.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate16.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate2.3deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+14.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+119.74Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Saudi Arabia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 47.69M in 2050—40.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202433.96M
  2. 205047.69M
  3. 210071.01M
Median age in 205032.0years
Births in 2050616.86Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050140.96Kduring the year
Life expectancy84.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.44M
  2. 19703.56M
  3. 19806.05M
  4. 199010.64M
  5. 200016.18M
  6. 201023.98M
  7. 202031.55M
  8. 202536.97M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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