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Non-Oil GDP Share: 55% 2025 real GDP |Saudi Unemployment: 7.2% Q4 2025 |PIF AUM: $1.21T 2025 actual |FDI Share of GDP: 2.8% Q1 2026 |Female Participation: 33.9% Q1 2026 |Credit Rating: Aa3/A+/A+ Moody's/Fitch/S&P |GDP Growth: 4.5% 2025 actual |Umrah Pilgrims: 18M+ 2025 foreign |Non-Oil GDP Share: 55% 2025 real GDP |Saudi Unemployment: 7.2% Q4 2025 |PIF AUM: $1.21T 2025 actual |FDI Share of GDP: 2.8% Q1 2026 |Female Participation: 33.9% Q1 2026 |Credit Rating: Aa3/A+/A+ Moody's/Fitch/S&P |GDP Growth: 4.5% 2025 actual |Umrah Pilgrims: 18M+ 2025 foreign |

Local-Content

The Consultants Who Built Vision 2030 Are Being Cut Loose

Saudi Arabia paid McKinsey at least $500m a year for a decade. In 2026 it froze payments, halted new awards and wrote a 30 per cent local-content floor into consulting tenders. The firm-by-firm ledger of what is documented and what the consultancies' own filings decline to say.

Updated Jul 31, 2026

Saudi procurement and supplier access: PIF AZM, Etimad, tenders, and localization

Strategic brief on Saudi procurement, PIF supplier access, Etimad tenders, local content, Saudization, and official-channel verification.

Updated May 26, 2026

IKTVA: In-Kingdom Total Value Add Programme

Complete guide to Saudi Aramco's IKTVA local content programme covering targets, supplier development, industrial impact, and Vision 2030 alignment.

Updated Apr 18, 2026

Saudi Aramco IKTVA Programme

Overview of Aramco's In-Kingdom Total Value Add (IKTVA) programme, local content targets, supply chain development, and implications for contractors and investors.

Updated May 6, 2026

What Is IKTVA?

Guide to IKTVA (In-Kingdom Total Value Add), Saudi Aramco's local content programme requiring suppliers to increase domestic value creation.

Updated Apr 18, 2026