International rankings of Saudi Arabia

Riyadh

• Metropolitan area by population
• Most expensive cities

• The World Factbook: Second number of mobile phones in use ranked
• OECD: number of broadband Internet users ranked ^[1]
• Economist Intelligence Unit: e-readiness 2008 ranked out of 70 countries^[2]
• The second position among G20 countries for telecoms expansion ^[3]

• United Nations: Population ranked out of 216 countries
• Population density ranked out of 241 countries
• United Nations report World Population Policies 2005, Number of immigrants ranked out of 192 countries

• United Nations: Human Development Index, ranked out of 177 countries
• Nominal GDP growth rate: ranked out of 215 countries
• Nominal GDP: ranked13 out of 179 countries ($ IMF; $ World Bank; $ CIA)
• Nominal GDP per capita 2006, ranked out of 179 IMF; out of 170 World Bank; out of 185 CIA
• A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine: Globalization Index 2006, ranked out of 62 countries
• The Heritage Foundation/The Wall Street Journal: 2006^[unfit] Index of Economic Freedom, ranked out of 155 countries
• The Economist: Worldwide Quality-of-life Index, 2005, ranked out of 111 countries
• World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Index 2006–2007, ranked 24 out of 125 countries
• World Tourism Organization World Tourism rankings ranked out of all countries^[4]
• World Economic Forum: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008, ranked out of 130 countries^[5]

According to ARWU ^[6]

1 King Abdulaziz University 101–150 2 King Saud University 151–200 3 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 201–300 4 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals 401–500

• The World Factbook: oil imports 2007, ranked 73 out of 207 countries^[7]
• The World Factbook: oil consumption 2009, ranked 9 out of 207 countries^[8]
• The World Factbook: oil exports 2007, ranked 1 out of 209 countries^[9]
• The World Factbook: oil production 2009, ranked 2 out of 208 countries^[10]
• The World Factbook: proven oil reserves 2010, ranked 1 out of 204 countries^[11]

• The World Factbook: natural gas imports 2008, ranked 135 out of 204 countries^[12]
• The World Factbook: natural gas consumption 2009, ranked 11 out of 209 countries^[13]
• The World Factbook: natural gas exports 208, ranked 130 out of 205 countries^[14]
• The World Factbook: natural gas production 2009, ranked 11 out of 207 countries^[15]
• The World Factbook: natural gas proven reserves 2010, ranked 5 out of 205 countries^[16]

• Yale University Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network: Environmental Sustainability Index, ranked out of 145 countries^[17]
• US Department of Energy: CO₂ emissions per capita 2004, ranked out of 206 countries^[18]
• The World Factbook: water resources ranked out of 174 countries^[19]

• Total area ranked out of 234 countries

• KOF: Index of Globalization 2007, ranked out of 122 countries^[20]
• A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine: Globalization Index 2006, ranked out of 62 countries^[21]

• OICA automobile production 2007, ranked out of 51 countries^[22] The first country of the Arab World to invest in industrial heritage, 2019, International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage.^[23]

• Center for Strategic and International Studies: active troops ranked out of 166 countries^[24]

• Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked 80th out of 180 countries
• Reporters without borders: Worldwide press freedom index, ranked 163 out of 167 countries
• The Economist Democracy Index 2007, ranked 161 out of 167 countries

• Save the Children: State of the World's Mothers report 2006, ranked out of 110 countries
• World Health Organization: Suicide rate ranked out of 100 countries

• OECD: number of broadband Internet users 2007, ranked out of the 30 OECD countries^[25]
• Brown University Taubman Center for Public Policy 2006: ranked in online government services^[26][27]
• Internet Freedom
• The 2nd rank in the Arab World “25” in the Global Cybersecurity Index^[28]
• The 13th worldwide rank in Global Cybersecurity Index^[29]
• World Intellectual Property Organization: Global Innovation Index 2024, ranked 47 out of 133 countries^[30]