Saudi Expat Dependency and Knowledge Transfer

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Saudi Expat Dependency: Vision 2030 Workforce Analysis

Saudi expat dependency is one of the hardest workforce constraints inside Vision 2030: the Kingdom needs more Saudi private-sector participation while still relying on foreign labour to build and operate the transformation. Of Saudi Arabia’s approximately 15-16 million workers, roughly 10-11 million — nearly 70% — are foreign nationals. This dependency extends across virtually every sector of the economy, from construction labourers to hospital physicians, from restaurant workers to software engineers, from domestic helpers to university professors.

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Saudi Expat Dependency and Knowledge Transfer

Saudi Expat Dependency: Vision 2030 Workforce Analysis