World population/Saudi Arabia
Asia
Population of Saudi Arabia
35,165,789
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#47
world rank
0.42%
of world population
+1.69%
yearly change
+593,448
people this year
567,889
births a year
81,744
deaths a year
How the figure for Saudi Arabia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Saudi Arabia at 35,165,789 on 1 July 2026, and projects 35,759,237 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Saudi Arabia at number 47 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.42 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 567,889 births and 81,744 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.