Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has witnessed an unprecedented and historic transformation in girls’s empowerment, with their lively participation in varied fields changing into a cornerstone in attaining the targets of Imaginative and prescient 2030. The 12 months 2024 displays the continuation of this improvement path, empowering Saudi girls to be lively companions in decision-making and coverage making.
The most recent information launched by the Common Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) for 2024 confirmed that the entire variety of Saudi girls exceeded 9.8 million, whereas the employment charge amongst Saudi girls rose to 31.8 p.c, and their labor market participation charge reached 36 p.c.
The Saudi Ladies’s Statistics Report 2024, launched by GASTAT, offers a complete overview of Saudi girls aged 15 and above. This report gives a various set of statistical indicators throughout varied fields, together with schooling, well being, employment, and tradition. Based mostly on the outcomes of quite a few surveys and census information, the report gives various statistics that mirror the progress and achievements of Saudi girls.
Based on the report, the entire variety of Saudi girls is 9,807,663, with the age group of 15-34 representing 35.7 p.c of the entire feminine inhabitants. Important progress was highlighted within the labor market, the place the unemployment charge for Saudi girls dropped to 13 p.c in 2024, a notable lower from 19 p.c in 2022. This coincided with an growth of ladies’s financial participation.
The report additionally showcased the achievements of Saudi girls in social, financial, instructional, well being, cultural, and leisure fields. There was a big decline in feminine unemployment, with the speed reaching 11.9 p.c within the fourth quarter of 2024, in comparison with 13.9 p.c in the identical quarter of 2023 and 15.7 p.c in the identical interval of 2022. Saudi girls have additionally achieved exceptional accomplishments within the fields of schooling, innovation, and sports activities. The share of ladies holding a bachelor’s diploma or its equal reached 35.3 p.c of the entire Saudi girls aged 25 and above. Twenty-two Saudi girls obtained patents in 2024, along with 1,956 native and worldwide awards within the subject of sports activities.
The report highlighted the efforts made to empower Saudi girls within the labor market, because the decline in unemployment charges coincided with an growth in girls’s financial participation and a rise of their employment charges throughout varied sectors. It revealed the distribution of ladies becoming a member of the labor market by sector, with the variety of Saudi girls within the non-public sector reaching 997,000, within the authorities sector 506,000, and within the public sector 157,600. It additionally confirmed that the typical weekly working hours for Saudi girls was 39 hours, whereas their common month-to-month wage was SR4,832 for the age group of 15-24 years, SR8,328 for the age group of 25-54 years, and SR10,739 for the age group of 55 years and above.
By way of life-style, the report indicated that 44.6 p.c of Saudi girls aged 18 and above have interaction in a minimum of 150 minutes of weekly bodily exercise. Cultural and leisure actions are additionally in style, with visits to parks and gardens being essentially the most frequent, at 62.7 p.c.
The Ladies 2024 Report additionally presents the most recent statistics on girls and highlights a number of indicators that assist speed up progress in girls’s empowerment, intensify efforts, and undertake high quality and efficient insurance policies to attain this. The GASTAT defined that it relied on a number of sources in making ready the report, together with subject surveys, inhabitants estimates, and sources from a number of entities. Crucial indicators associated to girls have been recognized to offer the mandatory information for decision-makers and policymakers, and to observe progress made on gender and variety indicators, with the opportunity of worldwide and native comparisons.