Saudi Arabia — Market Overview
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia trades as a blend of oil leverage, domestic liquidity, and state-directed investment, which means the market often reflects both crude dynamics and the execution pace of a massive domestic transformation agenda. The market is usually framed through oil revenues, credit and liquidity conditions, and whether Vision 2030 spending is broadening earnings beyond energy into banks, industrials, and consumer franchises.
Regionale Karte
Eckdaten
Saudi Arabia auf einen Blick
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Quelle: General Authority for Statistics,
Country dashboard
Warum dieser Markt wichtig ist
This version combines a stylized country map with a switchable macro explorer built from official published history, using OECD primary datasets where available and World Bank annual series where coverage is otherwise incomplete.
Makro-Explorer
Variablen wechseln, den Länderkontext behalten
These country charts now use official OECD quarterly and monthly history where the feed is actually published, with government debt added from the World Bank when a stable public series exists. Variables without dependable republishable coverage are left out instead of being interpolated, so each page shows fewer lines only when the source coverage is genuinely thinner.
Real GDP growth
Quarterly real GDP growth from OECD Quarterly National Accounts.
Verfügbare Variablen
Handel und Außenposition
Exporte, Dienstleistungen und Außenbilanz
Statt einer generischen Wand aus Makro-Karten konzentriert sich dieser Abschnitt darauf, wie das Land Nachfrage aus dem Ausland gewinnt, wo sein Handelsvorteil liegt und wie sich die Außenbilanz entwickelt.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Saudi Arabia is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Saudi Arabia is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Handelspartner
Wohin das Land handelt
Rohstoff-Perspektive
Rohstoff-Exposure
Trade in goods and services equaled 54.7% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 17.4% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 15.9% of merchandise exports in 2024.
Fuel exports accounted for 79.4% of merchandise exports in 2024, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 1.9% of merchandise exports in 2024, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Quelle: World Bank API: totalExports,
Worauf man achten sollte
Leserahmen
oil revenues
Saudi Arabia should first be read through oil revenues. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
domestic liquidity
The market is usually framed through oil revenues, credit and liquidity conditions, and whether Vision 2030 spending is broadening earnings beyond energy into banks, industrials, and consumer franchises. That makes domestic liquidity one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
Vision 2030 investment cycle
The final layer is vision 2030 investment cycle, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the TASI.
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Weiter durch Middle East
Jede Karte öffnet dieselbe Ländervorlage mit eigener Karte, umschaltbaren Makrovariablen und Benchmark-Ansicht. Dies ist das erste verknüpfte Netzwerk von Länderseiten in der Region.
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🇮🇷 Iran
A large sanctions-affected market driven by inflation, currency weakness, commodities, and domestic liquidity.
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🇮🇶 Iraq
An oil-dominated frontier market where state spending, security conditions, and banking liquidity shape the opportunity set.
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🇹🇷 Turkey
A high-beta market where inflation, rates, FX credibility, banks, and exporters all collide in the valuation story.
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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
A Gulf hub market shaped by oil-linked liquidity, property, banking, and cross-border capital flows.
Real GDP growth
Was das signalisiert
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is higher by 39.5%, which points to an improving or firmer backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.