How many hospitals are in Saudi Arabia?
Private hospitals.
5,791
active registrations list hospitals activities — 0.4% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
5,791 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list hospitals activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.4% of all classified registrations, the 64th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
1,858 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +80.6% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (2,650), Jeddah (841) and Makkah (349) lead. Relative to its size, Riyadh is the most concentrated: hospitals make up 1.5× the share they hold nationally.
90.8% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 5,791
- 0.4% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 1,858
- +80.6% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 90.8%
- 5,257 of 5,791
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where hospitals are registered
Column height: hospitals by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh2,6501.5×
- Jeddah8411.3×
- Makkah3491.2×
- Madinah2221.0×
- Dammam2080.8×
- Buraydah1971.4×
- Khobar1481.2×
- Hail1091.1×
- Taif1020.8×
- Najran820.5×
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×.
Hospitals: 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
- Hospital medical operation2,358Activity code 861046
- Hospitals2,258Activity code 861011
- Addiction treatment and rehabilitation hospitals755Activity code 861045
- Extended care and convalescent hospitals413Activity code 861044
- Other medical services3Activity code 861090
- Women's and maternity hospitals2Activity code 861042
- Specialized sanatoriums, rehabilitation and preventive health centers2Activity code 861030
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC5,03586.9%
- Sole proprietorship5299.1%
- JSC1743%
- SJSC270.5%
- General partnership160.3%
- Limited partnership50.1%
- Foreign branch40.1%
- GCC branch1<0.1%
Common questions
How many hospitals are there in Saudi Arabia?
5,791 active commercial registrations list hospitals 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 hospitals?
Riyadh, with 2,650 — 45.8% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 841.
Is the number of hospitals growing?
1,858 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +80.6% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in hospitals 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 hospitals?
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