Youth Unemployment Rate in Saudi Arabia increased to 12.40 percent in the third quarter of 2025 from 10.70 percent in the second quarter of 2025. Youth Unemployment Rate in Saudi Arabia averaged 13.94 percent from 2021 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 22.20 percent in the first quarter of 2021 and a record low of 9.60 percent in the first quarter of 2025. source: General Authority for Statistics, Saudi Arabia
Youth Unemployment Rate in Saudi Arabia is expected to be 11.80 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Saudi Arabia Youth Unemployment Rate is projected to trend around 11.60 percent in 2027, according to our econometric models.