Saudi Arabia: Saudi population aged 15 and above by sex, age group and marital status (census 2022)

  Never Married Married Divorced Widowed Total Saudis
  Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females
15-19 930,729 873,240 9,637 40,348 656 2,436 784 415 941,806 916,439
20-24 810,176 596,455 55,058 234,970 2,107 18,406 1,371 949 868,712 850,780
25-29 557,912 303,603 291,134 492,688 9,143 43,978 1,342 2,462 859,531 842,731
30-34 236,355 141,225 516,131 558,203 17,137 54,193 972 4,941 770,595 758,562
35-39 108,559 81,775 550,889 530,641 18,767 53,473 813 9,134 679,028 675,023
40-44 56,487 44,935 462,191 436,106 15,331 46,695 880 15,368 534,889 543,104
45-49 30,542 22,399 339,711 321,980 10,462 37,002 842 22,975 381,557 404,356
50-54 19,329 12,942 282,658 261,941 7,547 30,979 1,169 37,429 310,703 343,291
55-59 12,183 7,196 232,611 195,107 5,613 23,850 1,661 50,783 252,068 276,936
60-64 6,719 4,311 174,583 123,754 3,468 16,724 2,070 59,013 186,840 203,802
65-69 3,582 2,339 119,424 62,862 1,996 9,775 2,203 54,955 127,205 129,931
70-74 1,925 1,077 70,573 29,021 907 5,438 2,060 44,575 75,465 80,111
75-79 1,460 590 49,603 14,706 660 3,546 2,436 37,570 54,159 56,412
80+ 3,546 710 57,413 9,643 811 4,246 5,680 54,539 67,450 69,138
Total 2,779,504 2,092,797 3,211,616 3,311,970 94,605 350,741 24,283 395,108 6,110,008 6,150,616

 

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

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

General Authority for Statistics (GAStat)

 

  1. 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: 20 July 2023.     

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, National Population