Major Economic Indices of Saudi-Arabia

Value: billion USD

ITEMS 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Value of GDP at current price: 188.44 183.01 188.53 212.53 250.56 324.00
Mean growth in real GDP; %: 4.90 1.20 0.74 6.40 5.30 6.80
Per capita GDP; USD : 9161.- 8682.- 8728.- 9604.- 11.052.- 13.947.-
Inflation rate; % : 1 1 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.4
Rate of unemployment (+) : 6.54 6.82 7.57 8.21 8.50 8.80
Value of export : 78.67 67.97 72.46 93.24 126.06 175.40
Value of import : 27.70 31.17 32.29 36.90 44.74 50.50
Current balance of payments : 14.32 9.36 11.87 29.66 51.50 87.20
Direct working capital  investment in KSA : - 1.90 0.02 0.45 0.78 1.90  no data
Direct KSA working capital investments in foreign countries: - - - - - -
Balance of Budget : 6.06 -7.19 -5.46 9.60 26.13 42.6

(+) Data are estimated and refer to men only.

(++) For FDI value there are only estimates at our disposal. Order of countries is only available (UNCTAD)

Natural resources:

Main agricultural products and animal-husbandary sectors: wheat, barley, tomato, melon, dates, citrus, poultry, sheep, camel breeding, dairy production

Industry secto,r: crude-oil, refined crude-oil production kőolaj, basic petrochemicals production, ammonia, gas for indusry usage, caustic soda, cement, basic commodity for building industry, glass-industry, aluminium-industry, steel-industry

Export production: 88% crude-oil and basic petrochemicals production

Import production: plant and machinery, technical eqiupment, vehicles, ipari gépek, food-stuffs, petrochemicals production, textile

Main export partners: USA 18,2%, Japan 14,9%, Germany 14,3, UK 8,1% South-Korea 9,5%, China 6,1%, France 5,5% Italy 5,0%
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