Saudi Arabia’s unemployment rate for the total working-age population aged 15 and above stood at 3.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT).
The authority’s Labour Market Statistics Bulletin showed that the unemployment rate among Saudi males and females combined reached 7.2pc in the fourth quarter of 2025.
The bulletin indicated that the unemployment rate among Saudi women declined year on year to 10.3pc, down by 1.6 percentage points compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.
It also showed that the economic participation rate among Saudi males rose to 64.7pc, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared with the previous quarter of 2025.
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