The total population of Saudi Arabia declined by 2.6% in the middle of the year 2021 to 34.1 million people, compared to about 35 million people in the middle of the year 2020.
Today, Wednesday, the General Authority for Statistics in Saudi Arabia said that the main factor driving the decline in the total population is the decrease in the number of non-Saudis by 8.6%, with many non-Saudis leaving the country during the Corona pandemic.
The authority added that the Saudi population increased by 1.2% in mid-2021, on an annual basis.
Males constituted 56.8% of the total population, equivalent to 19.4 million individuals, while females constituted 43.2% of the total population, equivalent to 14.7 million females.
The authority explained that the population decline in Saudi Arabia in the middle of the year 2021 came after the population number in Saudi Arabia increased from 34.2 million in 2019 to 35 million in 2020.
She pointed out that the natural reproduction, which is the number of births minus the number of deaths, was positive for Saudis and non-Saudis. Therefore, the decrease in the total population mainly affected the decline in the number of non-Saudi males residing in the Kingdom by 10.6% in mid-2021 on an annual basis, due to the increase in the number of males. Those who left the kingdom during the Corona pandemic.
The Saudi population constituted 63.6% of the total population, while the non-Saudis constituted 36.4%.
