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:

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:

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: