Saudi social insurance subscribers reach 10.7 mln in Q3 2023: GOSI

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Saudi Arabia’s General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) said a total of 10.69 million public and private sector employees were registered in the social insurance scheme by the end of Q3 2023, an increase of almost 2% from 10.5 million in Q2 2023, as follows:

Public, Private Sector Employees Subscribed to Social Insurance
Period	Public Sector		Private Sector		Total
Period	Subscribers	QoQ Change	Subscribers	QoQ Change	Subscribers	QoQ Change
Q1 2022	452976	+2%	8624504	+7%	9077480	+7%
Q2 2022	460143	+2%	8890407	+3%	9350550	+3%
Q3 2022	476538	+4%	9028928	+2%	9505466	+2%
Q4 2022	499113	+5%	9401276	+4%	9900389	+4%
Q1 2023	509261	+2%	9907521	+5%	10416782	+5%
Q2 2023	519401	+2%	9975685	+1%	10495086	+1%
Q3 2023	536652	+3%	10151100	+2%	10687752	+2%

Social insurance subscribers working in the private sector reached 10.15 million by the end of Q3 2023, a 2% increase from 9.98 million subscribers in Q2 2023.

Insured citizens, who account for 22.4% of the total private sector subscribers, increased by about 47,500 to 2.27 million in Q3 2023, compared to Q2 2023.

The number of insured expatriate workers in the private sector surged by roughly 127,900 quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 7.88 million in Q3 2023. They account for 77.6% of the Kingdom’s total subscribers.

The following table demonstrates the private sector’s social insurance subscribers by Q3-end:

Number of Insured Private Sector Employees (mln)
Nationality	Q2 2023	Q3 2023	Change	Percentage to total (%)
Non-Saudi	7.75	7.88	+2.1%	77.6 %
Saudi	2.23	2.27	+1.7%	22.4 %
Total	9.98	10.15	+1.8%	100 %

Regional distribution shows that Riyadh accounted for the largest number of insured workers with nearly 4.47 million, or around 44% of total subscribers.

The following table shows the number of employees subscribed to the social insurance by region in Q3 2023:

Number of Insured Employees by Region
Office	Number	Percentage to Total
Riyadh	4473993	44.1%
Eastern Province	1485092	14.6%
Makkah/Jeddah	1398890	13.8%
Qassim	380490	3.7%
Makkah	336108	3.3%
Aseer	271528	2.7%
Al Jubail	254684	2.5%
Madinah	253918	2.5%
Al-Ahsa	154328	1.5%
Jazan	152351	1.5%
Taif	137171	1.4%
Hail	126743	1.2%
Najran	118196	1.2%
Al-Kharj	116090	1.1%
Tabuk	105465	1.0%
Yanbu	81113	0.8%
Hafr Al-Batin	74649	0.7%
Al-Jouf	63539	0.6%
Dawadmi	47527	0.5%
Northern Borders	45936	0.5%
Al Baha	39433	0.4%
Bisha	33856	0.3%
Total	10151100	100.0%

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