The overall unemployment rate among Saudis (males and females / 15 years and over) decreased to 11.7 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to 12.6 percent during the previous quarter.
The unemployment rate among the total Saudi and foreign population (15 years and over) decreased to 6.5 percent, compared to 7.4 percent during the previous quarter (the fourth quarter of 2020).
According to the bulletin issued by the Saudi General Authority for Statistics on the reality of the labor market in the first quarter of this year, in which it was based on the estimates of the labor force survey that it conducts on a quarterly basis. The results showed a decrease in the unemployment rate for the total male population for the first quarter of 2021, as it reached 3.7 percent, compared to 4 percent in the previous quarter. The unemployment rate for the total female population also decreased from 20.2 percent during the last quarter of 2020, to 16.1 percent in the first quarter.
The unemployment rate among Saudi women decreased to 21.2 percent during the first quarter, compared to 24.4 percent in the fourth quarter of last year.
Source (Asharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, Edited)
