Saudi Arabia vs United States

Saudi Arabia's GDP per person at purchasing power parity was $73,784 in 2025, 82% of the United States' $90,027, so the United States is the richer of the two by this measure. At market exchange rates, GDP per person was $34,537 in Saudi Arabia and $90,027 in the United States. Saudi Arabia ranks 19th and the United States 9th of the 186 countries with figures.

Prices across Saudi Arabia's economy averaged 47% of the United States' in 2025, so $100 spent in Saudi Arabia buys about what $214 buys in the United States, and a dollar goes 2.1 times as far in Saudi Arabia. The World Bank's PPP conversion factor was 1.755 (Saudi Arabian riyal) per international dollar in Saudi Arabia and 1.000 (U.S. dollar) in the United States.

In 2025, Saudi Arabia's GDP was $1.28 trillion at market exchange rates and $2.73 trillion at PPP; the United States' GDP was $30.8 trillion at market exchange rates and $30.8 trillion at PPP. At market rates Saudi Arabia's economy is 4% of the United States', and at PPP 9%. Saudi Arabia has 37.0 million people and the United States 341.8 million.

In 2025, gross national income per person by the World Bank's Atlas method was $36,070 in Saudi Arabia and $88,810 in the United States; at PPP it was $74,400 and $89,490. The World Bank classes both as high income. In household surveys, the median person's income was $72.07 a day ($26,306 a year) in the United States, from a 2024 survey of income, in 2021 international dollars. The World Bank has no recent survey median for Saudi Arabia.

After inflation, GDP per person at PPP grew 13% in Saudi Arabia from 2000 to 2025, 0.5% a year, and grew 40% in the United States, 1.3% a year. Saudi Arabia's was 1.02 times the United States' in 2000 and 82% in 2025.

A rate that converts money between countries by what it buys rather than by the exchange rate. An international dollar buys in any country what a US dollar buys in the United States. The World Bank's International Comparison Program prices the same goods and services around the world to set these rates, so GDP at PPP compares how much economies actually produce, without exchange rate swings or price gaps.

GDP is the value of everything produced inside a country. GNI, gross national income, adds income residents earn abroad and takes away income sent to foreign owners and workers. They differ most where foreign companies or workers take a large share, as in Ireland or Luxembourg, so GNI per person is closer to what a country's residents earn.

A way of converting GNI to US dollars that averages a country's exchange rate over three years, adjusted for inflation, so one year's currency swing doesn't jump it from one income group to another. The World Bank uses it to sort countries into low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high income each July.

Median income or consumption comes from household surveys, which most countries run every few years and some haven't run in a long time. Many lower-income countries measure what households spend rather than what they earn. This page shows the latest survey from the past 15 years in the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform, with its year, and says when there isn't one.

From the World Bank's World Development Indicators, last updated October 8, 2026, with figures through 2025, and median income or consumption from its Poverty and Inequality Platform (September 22, 2026 release). Each figure is the latest the World Bank has for that country, from 2015 on; an older one is left out. The IMF publishes its own estimates, which usually differ by a few percent.

No. It's an educational comparison of official statistics. A country's average price level covers its whole economy, so your own costs in either place depend on where you live and what you buy.

• GDP and GNI in US dollars use market exchange rates; at PPP they use the World Bank's purchasing power parities, in international dollars.
• The price level is a country's GDP at market rates divided by its GDP at PPP: its prices against US prices, across the whole economy, not just what households buy. What $100 buys elsewhere is $100 times the ratio of the two price levels.
• GNI per person uses the Atlas method, the measure behind the World Bank's income groups.
• The chart is GDP per person at PPP in constant 2021 international dollars, so it shows growth after inflation.
• Figures: World Development Indicators, updated October 8, 2026; median income or consumption: Poverty and Inequality Platform, September 22, 2026 release. Series: GDP, GDP at PPP, GDP per person at PPP, PPP conversion factor, GNI per person (Atlas), GNI per person at PPP.