Saudi Arabia Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 65,617 Saudi Arabia companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Saudi Arabia company register data is filed on the Commercial Register (السجل التجاري, Al-Sijill Al-Tijari), under a new Law of Commercial Register issued in September 2024 and effective 3 April 2025, replacing the previous 1995 framework, and run by the Ministry of Commerce. Beneficial ownership is filed separately through the Saudi Business Center, mandatory since the same April 2025 effective date and linked directly to commercial-registration issuance and renewal, at a 25% shareholding or board-majority appointment-power threshold. It is not open for public search, tied instead to the registration process itself.
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Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Saudi Arabia, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s economy is the largest in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world by nominal GDP, which the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) reported at SAR 4,703 billion (~$1.24 trillion) for full-year 2024, alongside a slim overall real GDP growth rate of 1.3% for 2024 — held down by OPEC+-mandated oil output cuts (oil GDP contracted 4.4% in 2024) even as non-oil real GDP grew a much stronger 4.5%. GDP per capita stood at roughly $35,057 in 2024 (World Bank). Momentum improved into 2025: the IMF’s August 2025 Article IV consultation raised its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 4%, with non-oil growth reaching 4.8% in H1 2025, contributing over 55% of total GDP. Inflation has stayed low and stable, running between 1.9% and 2.3% year-on-year through 2025. The Saudi riyal has been pegged to the US dollar at SAR 3.75 = $1 since 1986. The 2026 state budget, approved December 2025, projects a fiscal deficit of roughly SAR 165.4 billion (about 3.3% of GDP), reflecting continued reliance on hydrocarbon revenue even amid diversification gains. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s actual current oil-versus-non-oil revenue exposure directly.
Saudi Arabia remains overwhelmingly an oil-and-petrochemicals exporter: mineral fuels made up an estimated 73.2% of total exports value (~$223.4 billion) in 2024, though non-oil exports reached SAR 622.87 billion in 2025 (up 14% year-on-year). China is Saudi Arabia’s largest single trading partner, absorbing roughly 1.8-2 million barrels per day of Saudi crude. Net FDI inflows were revised to SAR 119 billion (~$31.7 billion) for 2024, against a National Investment Strategy target of $103 billion in annual FDI by 2030 — meaning actual inflows remain well below the diversification target. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) managed SAR 4.54 trillion (~$1.21 trillion) in assets as of end-2025, ranking fourth globally among sovereign wealth funds. PIF-backed giga-projects show a genuinely mixed picture: NEOM’s flagship “The Line” has been substantially scaled back — construction was effectively paused in late 2025, workforce cut roughly 35% since April 2025, with cost estimates ballooning from an initial ~$1.6 trillion toward figures cited as high as $8.8 trillion. By contrast, Qiddiya has hit real milestones (Six Flags Qiddiya City opened December 31, 2025) and Red Sea Global has ten resorts operational as of late 2025. Saudi Arabia continues to lead OPEC+ output policy, having extended production cuts through end-2026 while steering a 2025-2026 unwind of roughly 2.2 million barrels/day in prior voluntary cuts. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s current giga-project involvement and delivery-stage status directly rather than assume announced scale reflects delivered progress.
Saudi Arabia’s population was estimated at approximately 34-36 million in 2025, of which non-Saudis make up roughly 40-44% of residents, underscoring continued heavy reliance on migrant labor. The Nitaqat (“Saudization”) quota system continued to tighten through 2025: new phased requirements took effect for engineers (30% Saudi minimum from July 2025), accountants (a five-phase plan starting at 40% from October 2025), and marketing/sales roles (up to 60% quotas), while the mid-tier “Yellow” compliance category was eliminated. One of the most significant recent stories is the rise in Saudi women’s labor-force participation, which climbed from 17% in 2017 to 36.2-36.3% by Q1 2025, already exceeding the original Vision 2030 target of 30% (achieved five years early, in 2021), with the government now targeting 40% by 2030; female unemployment fell to a historic low of 10.5% in Q1 2025. On the labor-rights side, Saudi Arabia announced reforms to its kafala sponsorship system in mid-2025 allowing many migrant workers to change employers and exit the country without employer permission, but Human Rights Watch (2025 World Report; June 2025 statement; UN experts’ statement, May 2026) documented that reforms remain partial, continuing to exclude domestic, agricultural and fishing workers, with recruitment-related and wage-related abuses persisting despite multiple reform rounds since 2021. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s actual current labor-compliance and Saudization-quota status directly rather than assume either full reform or unreformed conditions.
Saudi Arabia company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Companies by industry
NACE section level, live from official registries. Each bar links through to its own directory.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
From Monsha’a (the Saudi SME General Authority) SME Monitor, Q3 2025: small and medium enterprises constitute approximately 99.5-99.6% of all private-sector establishments in Saudi Arabia, with large enterprises representing under 0.5%. As of Q3 2025, roughly 1.7 million active SME commercial registrations were reported, employing more than 8.4-8.88 million workers. A “foreign-owned company share” statistic is deliberately omitted here: no genuine, dated statistic for the percentage of Saudi companies that are foreign-owned could be located (only flow/count data exists, e.g. 14,303 new MISA investment licenses issued in 2024, +67% year-on-year, and over 700 multinational Regional Headquarters companies by end-2025 — both licensing/registration counts, not an ownership-share percentage). Source: .
Who uses Saudi Arabia ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Saudi Arabia counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 317 Saudi Arabia entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies does Zavia have on record for Saudi Arabia?
Zavia holds 65,617 company records for Saudi Arabia, of which 65,610 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Is beneficial ownership (UBO) data public in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia company register data is filed on the Commercial Register (السجل التجاري, Al-Sijill Al-Tijari), under a new Law of Commercial Register issued in September 2024 and effective 3 April 2025, replacing the previous 1995 framework, and run by the Ministry of Commerce. Beneficial ownership is filed separately through the Saudi Business Center, mandatory since the same April 2025 effective date and linked directly to commercial-registration issuance and renewal, at a 25% shareholding or board-majority appointment-power threshold. It is not open for public search, tied instead to the registration process itself.
Does Zavia have shareholder and group structure data for Saudi Arabia companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 142 shareholder records for Saudi Arabia companies, with 6,445 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Does Zavia have director and officer data for Saudi Arabia companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 2,248 officer and director records for Saudi Arabia companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Does Zavia have VAT registration data for Saudi Arabia companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 1 VAT records for Saudi Arabia companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Does Zavia have financial report data for Saudi Arabia companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 317 digitized financial reports for Saudi Arabia companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Can I access Saudi Arabia's company data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Saudi Arabia, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I read more about how UBO verification works in Saudi Arabia?
Zavia's Saudi Arabia beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.