2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
0-4	483,540	501,027	521,693	546,249	571,402	597,380	628,585	623,430	583,664	546,443	531,513	454,158	404,204
5-9	394,047	416,263	431,615	447,585	464,834	509,852	552,251	552,872	527,179	514,034	540,077	502,617	504,637
10-14	485,346	421,127	390,248	373,450	360,577	386,243	421,010	427,263	417,740	416,578	450,451	434,389	446,411
15-19	1,430,709	1,176,865	929,119	722,493	564,858	476,935	420,691	370,190	329,052	314,303	329,235	332,452	338,455
20-24	2,331,265	2,240,002	2,066,773	1,902,844	1,670,052	1,426,379	1,169,018	909,118	671,833	597,579	782,305	672,095	896,490
25-29	1,998,830	2,259,210	2,290,471	2,451,747	2,447,286	2,480,792	2,410,905	2,177,832	1,818,482	1,738,052	1,929,772	1,714,034	2,043,453
30-34	1,142,942	1,444,287	1,694,156	2,022,917	2,180,988	2,470,043	2,661,794	2,631,944	2,416,624	2,341,462	2,504,503	2,259,524	2,363,675
35-39	670,141	903,380	1,141,622	1,426,745	1,562,840	1,859,094	2,100,224	2,164,213	2,079,974	2,048,830	2,129,371	1,996,314	2,110,905
40-44	457,709	625,717	824,258	1,025,151	1,112,205	1,331,542	1,515,340	1,559,738	1,500,875	1,425,971	1,566,303	1,443,892	1,575,884
45-49	251,636	392,176	565,102	732,810	810,446	976,353	1,110,310	1,141,645	1,092,388	1,024,418	1,087,096	997,695	1,039,267
50-54	102,688	195,525	322,713	437,703	501,709	637,802	753,907	792,774	773,859	744,656	796,799	715,808	734,378
55-59	70,088	81,966	168,324	255,548	295,893	383,483	458,337	487,128	475,729	447,830	482,530	450,829	466,215
60-64	48,374	31,560	62,992	102,950	127,662	180,486	234,524	264,492	247,608	231,804	261,111	243,540	257,010
65+	65,008	60,633	76,229	96,411	103,485	131,927	161,990	177,736	175,638	164,668	182,857	186,367	201,978
Total	9,932,323	10,749,738	11,485,315	12,544,603	12,774,237	13,848,311	14,598,886	14,280,375	13,110,645	12,556,628	13,573,923	12,403,714	13,382,962

Source: GAStat, Saudi Arabia census 2022

 

ANNEXED NOTE

 

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

 

Source: Saudi census 2022

Date of reference: 10 May 2022

Population of reference: Families and individual citizens and residents within the Kingdom, regardless of the status of their identification documents. Visitors for Hajj, Umrah and tourism are excluded from the census.

Methodology:

The first phase of the 2020 census began on 3 February 2020 (enumeration of buildings and households). Census 2022 used geospatial data, including satellite images, electricity consumption and mobile phone data, to improve the accuracy and geographic coverage of address canvassing.

The second stage (“actual enumeration”) was due to start on the original reference date (17 March 2020), but was suspended by the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis. This stage was conducted in October 2021.

The 2022 census used a combined methodology – administrative records, fieldwork and digital self-enumeration. Household data were collected from e-portals of self-enumeration (on residents’ mobile devices, laptops or personal computers, or self-enumeration stations/kiosks, located in shopping centers). The digital self-enumeration process was complemented by face-to-face interviews, using digital tablets.

Census 2022 used a de jure approach: enumerating people according to their usual place of residence.

Administrative data from multiple sources was used to cross-validate collected census data.

Census 2022 was designed as a launchpad for several new secure statistical data registers for population, housing, and businesses.

See census methodology in:

https://portal.saudicensus.sa/portal/public/methodology

Portal of the Saudi census:

https://portal.saudicensus.sa/portal

 

Population data for 2010-22 were revised and backcasted, based on 2022 population census and past years’ administrative data.

Technical note on backcasting:

https://portal.saudicensus.sa/static-assets/media/content/20230529_Back-Casting%20Methodology.pdf?crafterSite=gastat-portal

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

General Authority for Statistics (GAStat)

 

3. Data availability

 

The table was retrieved from the Saudi census portal on GAStat website:

https://portal.saudicensus.sa/portal

“Population” section, then “data tables”-

https://portal.saudicensus.sa/portal/public/1/15?type=TABLE

Selected, pre-set tables can be downloaded from the thematic section.

Date of access: 29 April 2024.

GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change; that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from; that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.

 

Keywords: Saudi Arabia, Foreign Population, National Population, Foreign & National Populations

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