Non-Oil GDP Share: 76% ▲ -7.7pp vs 2020 | Saudi Unemployment: 3.5% ▲ -0.5pp vs 2023 | PIF AUM: $941.3B ▲ +$345B vs 2022 | Inbound FDI: $21.3B ▼ -6.4% vs 2023 | Female Participation: 33% ▲ -1.1pp vs 2023 | Credit Rating: Aa3/A+ ▲ Moody's / Fitch | GDP Growth: 2.0% ▲ +1.5pp vs 2023 | Umrah Pilgrims: 16.92M ▲ vs 11.3M target | Non-Oil GDP Share: 76% ▲ -7.7pp vs 2020 | Saudi Unemployment: 3.5% ▲ -0.5pp vs 2023 | PIF AUM: $941.3B ▲ +$345B vs 2022 | Inbound FDI: $21.3B ▼ -6.4% vs 2023 | Female Participation: 33% ▲ -1.1pp vs 2023 | Credit Rating: Aa3/A+ ▲ Moody's / Fitch | GDP Growth: 2.0% ▲ +1.5pp vs 2023 | Umrah Pilgrims: 16.92M ▲ vs 11.3M target |

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21,000 Dead: The Worker Death Toll Behind Saudi Vision 2030

21,000 workers from India, Bangladesh, and Nepal dead since 2017. 100,000 missing. 80% of deaths classified as 'natural causes' without autopsy. The forensic account of the labour catastrophe behind Saudi Arabia's national transformation.

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Abdul Wali Skandar Khan: The First Documented Death on a NEOM Construction Site

A 25-year-old Pakistani engineer died when a guardrail collapsed at NEOM. No investigation. No compensation. His brother flew to Saudi Arabia to retrieve the body. The first formally documented worker death on a NEOM construction site.

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The Wayne Borg Tapes: Racism, Dead Workers, and the Executive Culture Inside NEOM

Three workers died. The executive's response: 'A whole bunch of people die so we've got to have a meeting on a Sunday night.' He called South Asian labourers slurs. The Wall Street Journal investigation into NEOM's executive culture.

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