Saudi Arabia · Real GDP Growth · % y/y

## What this measures

How much more Saudi Arabia's economy produced this year than last, after stripping out inflation.

## Why it matters

Growth is what makes debt affordable: when growth outruns the interest rate on the debt, the debt ratio can fall without austerity.

## How to read it

Compare with the country's trend and with its interest rate. A single year is noisy; the three-year average is the steadier read (it is what Country Strength uses).

## What it does not say

GDP measures output, not welfare or distribution. Small, open economies (Ireland, Luxembourg) can swing on multinational accounting.

## Source

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), indicator `NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG`, annual.