People from abroad in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia's people abroad

Where they come from

Industries

Where the names come from (estimate)

Where the names in Saudi Arabia's company register come from, estimated by a name-origin model and adjusted to Saudi Arabia's own mix. These are expected counts, not people with a documented move, and no individual is labelled by them.

Based on 2,974 names whose origin the model can place; 21,917 names common to many countries are counted but not assigned.

Saudi Arabia's people abroad

Abroad, 101,192 people from Saudi Arabia are documented in 182 other countries.

Saudi Arabia's company register lists 30,492 officer rows, 3,066 with a stated nationality (self-stamp rate 0.86; above 0.98 the field is ignored as it only repeats the register's own country).

Counts are people with a documented cross-border move: an official register's nationality or birthplace, ORCID/VIAF/Wikidata records, or a dated study-then-work transition. Name-based estimates and heritage (ancestral) readings are not included in these counts. Groups under 5 people are folded into "Other".

Aggregate statistics from official company registers, ORCID, VIAF and Wikidata, compiled by compatriots.net · data build v3_20261030. No individual is named on this page. See methodology & privacy.