How many electronics and mobile phone shops are in Saudi Arabia?
Retailers of computers, phones, telecom and audio-visual equipment.
31K
active registrations list electronics & mobile phone shops activities — 2.1% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
31,018 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list electronics & mobile phone shops activities as of 16 September 2026 — 2.1% of all classified registrations, the 33rd-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
5,547 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -0.6% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (9,668), Jeddah (5,309), Makkah (2,363) lead. Relative to its size, Jeddah is the most concentrated: electronics and mobile phone shops make up 1.6× the share they hold nationally.
36.2% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 31,018
- 2.1% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 5,547
- -0.6% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 36.2%
- 11,220 of 31,018
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where electronics and mobile phone shops are registered
Column height: electronics and mobile phone shops by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh9,6681.0×
- Jeddah5,3091.6×
- Makkah2,3631.5×
- Dammam1,2260.9×
- Madinah1,2161.0×
- Khobar8831.3×
- Tabuk6401.3×
- Taif5470.8×
- Buraydah5100.7×
- Najran4750.6×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Electronics & mobile phone shops: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Retail of mobile phone accessories8,958Activity code 474140
- Retail of mobile phones6,669Activity code 474130
- Retail of computers, printers and accessories5,009Activity code 474110
- Sale of off-the-shelf software2,570Activity code 474152
- Retail of audio equipment2,034Activity code 474220
- Retail of radio and TV equipment1,939Activity code 474210
- Retail of video games, software and accessories1,292Activity code 474120
- Retail of software1,150Activity code 474151
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- Sole proprietorship19,78363.8%
- LLC10,87735.1%
- JSC2420.8%
- SJSC590.2%
- Limited partnership230.1%
- General partnership190.1%
- GCC branch12<0.1%
- Foreign branch3<0.1%
Electronics & mobile phone shops by city
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Common questions
How many electronics and mobile phone shops are there in Saudi Arabia?
31,018 active commercial registrations list electronics & mobile phone shops activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most electronics and mobile phone shops?
Riyadh, with 9,668 — 31.2% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 5,309.
Is the number of electronics and mobile phone shops growing?
5,547 were registered in 2025 and are still active — -0.6% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in electronics & mobile phone shops in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
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.
Starting a business in electronics & mobile phone shops?
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