RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s economy expanded 4.5 percent in 2025, driven by gains across oil, non-oil and government activities, as stronger crude output and steady domestic demand helped accelerate growth.
Data released by the General Authority for Statistics showed real gross domestic product growth reached 5 percent year on year in the fourth quarter, concluding a year in which oil activities increased 5.7 percent and non-oil sectors rose 4.9 percent. Government activities also contributed, rising by 0.9 percent compared to the previous year.
This comes as the Kingdom’s non-oil exports surged to their highest quarterly level on record, reaching $25.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking a 114 percent increase compared to the first quarter of 2017, when Saudi Arabia began publishing the data.
The rise in non-oil exports underscores progress under the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 program, which aims to diversify the economy by reducing reliance on crude oil revenues and increasing the contribution of non-oil exports to non-oil gross domestic product to 50 percent by the end of the decade.
“The main drivers of growth in real GDP in 2025 were non-oil activities, which contributed 2.8 percentage points and oil activities which contributed 1.4 percentage points. Government activities and net taxes on products contributed 0.1 and 0.2 percentage points, respectively,” GASTAT said.
