The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Economy (70/100) — sharpest risk, quality of Life weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 70/100 | Labour Productivity |
| Governance | 64/100 | State Efficiency |
| Quality of Life | 67/100 | Tertiary Enrolment (Gross) |
| Innovation | 64/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | 62/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | +3 | now 68, versus 65 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 57/100 | Pandemic 74 · Banking Crisis 61 · War / Conflict 51 · Natural Disaster 43 |
| Strategic Position | 59/100 | Demographics 89 · Resources 15 · Stability 62 · Education 78 · Technology 64 · Geopolitics 47 |
Saudi Arabia scores 65 (moderate) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: up 3 points versus three years ago (now 68). Its strongest area is Economy (70/100). The risk drawing attention: Quality of Life weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 110 sourced, 82 derived — each with its exact source, series code, and refresh cadence. The complete source-by-source catalog is on the methodology page.
Full catalog →Per-indicator sources are always public on the methodology page — Analyst assembles the complete ledger in context.
Saudi Arabia scores 65 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (moderate) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Economy (70/100) and its weakest is Stability (62/100).
Saudi Arabia's Stability score is 62 out of 100 (moderate), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Saudi Arabia's Economy score is 70 out of 100 (strong), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Saudi Arabia's Quality of Life score is 67 out of 100 (moderate), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Saudi Arabia's Governance score is 64 out of 100 (moderate), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Saudi Arabia's Innovation score is 64 out of 100 (moderate), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, Saudi Arabia is up 3 points versus three years ago — 68 now, from 65 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Saudi Arabia's defining asset is labour productivity, while its sharpest risk is quality of life weakness — air Pollution (PM2.5) 73.52 µg/m³ — the category's weakest input (2/100).
Saudi Arabia's Strategic Position score is 59 out of 100 (moderate), weighing demographics, resources, stability, education, technology and geopolitics — each component sourced or derived, with unsourced components dropped rather than counted as zero.
On NationsHelm's Opportunity Index, Saudi Arabia scores 66 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 57/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.