GASTAT: Saudi Economy Achieves 4.5% Growth in 2025

The General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) announced that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.5% in 2025 compared with 2024, driven by growth across all economic activities, with oil activities rising 5.7%, non-oil activities increasing 4.9%, and government activities growing 0.9%.
 According to the results of the real GDP statistics for 2025 and the fourth quarter of the same year issued today by GASTAT, the value of GDP at current prices reached SAR4,789 billion in 2025. Crude oil and natural gas activities recorded the highest contribution among economic activities at 17.1%, followed by government activities at 14.0%, then wholesale and retail trade, restaurants, and hotels at 12.3%, followed by manufacturing activities excluding oil refining at 11.1%, and construction activities at 8.0%.
 Meanwhile, the bulletin results indicated that the Saudi economy recorded growth of 5.0% in the fourth quarter of 2025. Several economic activities continued to achieve notable growth rates, with crude oil and natural gas activities recording the highest growth during the fourth quarter at 12.4% on an annual basis and 4.2% on a quarterly basis, followed by wholesale and retail trade, restaurants, and hotels, which achieved growth of 5.4% on an annual basis.
 Oil activities were the largest contributors to real GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2025, adding 2.6 percentage points, while non-oil activities added 2.4 percentage points. On a seasonally adjusted basis, non-oil activities accounted for 0.9 percentage points and oil activities for 0.5 percentage points in the same quarter.