Saudi Arabia Trade Update: Huge jump in Saudi Arabia’s trade, profit of 90.5 billion riyals in first 3 months

Saudi Arabia’s foreign trade has seen huge growth. The country’s trade surplus has reached 90.5 billion riyals in the first quarter of 2026. According to the report of the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), this is much more than last year.

If compared with last year, there has been an annual increase of 43.7 percent. In the first quarter of 2025, this figure was 63 billion riyals, which has now increased to 90.5 billion riyals. There has been an increase of 60 percent in comparison to the last quarter of 2025. In the month of March 2026, this jump reached 200.9 percent, which is about 38 billion riyals more than 19.1 billion riyals in February.

Saudi Arabia’s total international trade stood at more than 535 billion riyals. In this, total exports were approximately 312.8 billion riyals and imports were 222.3 billion riyals. National exports, which include oil and non-oil products, reached 274.5 billion riyals. Apart from this, re-exports also stood at more than 38 billion riyals.

Talking about trading countries, Asian countries bought the most goods from Saudi, which was worth 229.2 billion riyals. After this comes Europe, Africa and America. China remained the biggest buyer for Saudi Arabia, purchasing goods worth 44.8 billion riyals.

32 different ports, airports and land routes were used for non-oil exports and re-exports. Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport ranked first with exports worth 17.5 billion riyals. Jeddah Islamic Port stood second, with trade worth more than 12 billion riyals. These results have come due to increasing commercial activity in the country and better trade relations with the world.