What Saudi businesses are registered to do
64 sectors, from restaurants and coffee shops to cybersecurity and trucking — how many businesses, where, and how fast each is growing.
1.44M
classified active registrations (74.7% of the register).
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
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What Saudi Arabia is building, selling and serving
1,443,322 businesses, one scroll. Fastest riser: cement and concrete product makers, +114.2% in 2025.
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- ConstructionBuilding contractors397,184+54.3% in 2025
- ConstructionFinishing & fit-out contractors144,361+32.7% in 2025
- Food & hospitalityRestaurants & food outlets128,871+9.3% in 2025
- Retail & tradeGeneral wholesale traders102,513+9.2% in 2025
- ConstructionSite preparation & demolition86,657+82.4% in 2025
- Retail & tradeButchers, fruit & specialty food shops85,814-5.4% in 2025
- Retail & tradeCar repair & maintenance79,920+9.5% in 2025
- ConstructionRoad & civil engineering contractors73,272+59.4% in 2025
- Retail & tradeGrocery stores & supermarkets72,771+1.4% in 2025
Every sector we track
Construction502.2K
Retail & trade436.1K
- General wholesale traders102,513
- Butchers, fruit & specialty food shops85,814
- Car repair & maintenance79,920
- Grocery stores & supermarkets72,771
- Clothing & shoe shops57,300
- Building materials & hardware56,206
- Food & beverage wholesalers55,955
- Furniture & home goods shops52,268
- Car parts & accessories43,124
- Perfume, oud & cosmetics shops36,314
- Electronics & mobile phone shops31,018
- Flower & gift shops24,711
- Car dealers12,754
- Medical equipment suppliers11,038
- Pharmacies10,788
- Gold & jewellery shops9,873
Food & hospitality213.7K
Transport & logistics142.7K
Manufacturing & farming141.4K
Professional services120K
Personal services87K
Technology36.2K
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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