Saudi Arabia: non-Saudi population by age group (2010-2022) (data adjusted by census 2022)

 

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