International Institute for Population Sciences
Deemed to be University (An Autonomous Organization of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India)

The Saudi Arabian demography, with ups and downs, slowly and steadily flows from a predevelopment to a late transitional stage. The path shows a lag, a delay, an unconformity with theory, and a different path away from plans, programs, and interventions, but promising. Using the data set of the General Authority for Statistics and a few online sources, this analysis appraises the late and lagging, but credible, sustainable, and enduring demography of Saudi Arabia. A clear path of demographic transition delineates stages of pretransition and transition (early, mid, and late). Along with transition, life changed through societal level transformations – progress on vital events of birth and death, and the accompanied gains in life expectancy. Changes in society are demonstrated in housing types, ownership, material used for construction, and utilities – water, power, sewage, education, livelihoods, and immigration. Such an assimilation and integration of various dimensions has resulted from an integration of intersectoral interventions and improvements. Thus, the demography of Saudi Arabia will move forward, fast, with credibility, sustainability, and endurance, shortly.