Saudi Arabia: Total employed population (aged 15 and above) by nationality (Saudi / Non-Saudi), sex and labour regulation applied (governmental, private sector, domestic labour) (2017)

		Saudis			Non-Saudis			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
1. Civil Service (public sector)	704,183	477,508	1,181,691	26,964	24,040	51,004	731,147	501,548	1,232,695
2. Social Insurance (private sector)	1,376,418	605,737	1,982,155	7,741,863	211,755	7,953,618	9,118,281	817,492	9,935,773
Total	2,080,601	1,083,245	3,163,846	7,768,827	235,795	8,004,622	9,849,428	1,319,040	11,168,468
3. Domestic labour	0	0	0	1,673,336	739,337	2,412,673	1,673,336	739,337	2,412,673
Grand total	2,080,601	1,083,245	3,163,846	9,442,163	975,132	10,417,295	11,522,764	2,058,377	13,581,141

Source: GOSI, MCS and MLSD records, in Labour Force Survey 2017 (Q4), GAStat.

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Since 2016, Labour Force Surveys are conducted quarterly.
Sampling frame: Population Census 2010.
Sample size: 33,500 households
Population of reference: All the members of the households selected in the sample, including domestic helpers and the like who live in one house; Saudi and non-Saudi population, living in the Kingdom at the time of the survey.
Period of reference: Q4, 2017

Since Q3 2016, instead of survey results, the Labour Force Surveys’ publications display administrative data: the records of Saudi and foreign labourers covered by social security schemes
(private and governmental sectors), and Ministry of Labour’s records of domestic labourers.
1. Labourers in the governmental sector are recorded by the Ministry of Civil Service.
2. The Social Insurance Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become compulsorily applied to all Saudi workers in the private sector
of any other GCC Member State effective from 01/01/2006. Saudi and foreign workers in the sector have to be recorded by the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI).
3. Since 2017, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development records all labourers in the domestic sector.

Therefore, data presented here may differ from the concerned ministries’ records of actual employment.
.Moreover, the present data do not include employees in the security and military sectors and employed persons non-registered in the records of GOSI and MCS

2. Institution which provides data

General Authority for Statistics (GAStat), Saudi Arabia

3. Data availability

CDSI’s, and later GAStat’s Labour Force Surveys are available online on GAStat’s website since 1999:
https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/814
The present data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2017 (Q4) (PDF and Excel formats).

Last date of access: July 2018.