Saudi Arabia: Total 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

2,492,503

2,547,295

2,600,739

2,655,996

2,720,823

2,773,424

2,834,236

2,859,199

2,847,159

2,807,571

2,780,036

2,661,302

2,578,159

5-9

2,190,042

2,235,764

2,285,700

2,347,267

2,413,433

2,507,746

2,591,704

2,622,253

2,625,845

2,655,099

2,718,774

2,721,434

2,762,317

10-14

2,229,080

2,161,101

2,130,458

2,118,722

2,127,667

2,180,172

2,240,857

2,278,664

2,311,776

2,361,187

2,453,015

2,490,632

2,546,414

15-19

3,103,040

2,871,903

2,650,718

2,454,961

2,299,600

2,210,942

2,152,113

2,098,042

2,057,345

2,064,047

2,110,206

2,148,429

2,196,700

20-24

3,813,218

3,735,209

3,580,419

3,456,057

3,264,520

3,061,698

2,832,367

2,593,970

2,364,234

2,293,114

2,486,431

2,384,384

2,615,982

25-29

3,257,219

3,553,023

3,621,781

3,824,781

3,866,343

3,940,474

3,897,523

3,682,154

3,362,411

3,319,944

3,561,340

3,381,282

3,745,715

30-34

2,108,930

2,463,017

2,771,007

3,154,966

3,377,955

3,723,724

3,963,271

3,970,590

3,796,045

3,761,659

3,971,445

3,758,285

3,892,832

35-39

1,412,813

1,670,637

1,938,697

2,266,184

2,461,105

2,820,230

3,121,544

3,241,354

3,209,224

3,237,830

3,379,938

3,300,160

3,464,956

40-44

1,098,057

1,284,094

1,497,021

1,725,771

1,835,791

2,069,160

2,281,986

2,353,534

2,332,549

2,310,917

2,514,966

2,455,831

2,653,877

45-49

760,663

920,930

1,116,423

1,309,663

1,416,604

1,609,284

1,764,785

1,808,100

1,782,422

1,732,368

1,808,275

1,749,706

1,825,180

50-54

475,514

588,321

739,039

879,984

965,483

1,136,194

1,275,542

1,335,132

1,338,521

1,334,544

1,412,925

1,353,888

1,388,372

55-59

316,186

343,654

454,775

565,594

632,649

743,422

841,036

892,368

905,009

895,772

965,178

956,541

995,219

60-64

228,088

214,749

252,591

300,935

343,380

413,816

484,813

538,629

543,711

553,062

606,017

610,557

647,652

65+

493,134

502,170

529,493

563,123

583,920

626,096

672,421

703,366

720,030

736,685

783,964

811,952

861,849

Total

23,978,487

25,091,867

26,168,861

27,624,004

28,309,273

29,816,382

30,954,198

30,977,355

30,196,281

30,063,799

31,552,510

30,784,383

32,175,224

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: 21 May 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