International rankings of Saudi Arabia

Riyadh

• Metropolitan area by population
• Most expensive cities

• The World Factbook: Second number of mobile phones in use ranked
• OECD: number of broadband Internet users ranked [1]
• Economist Intelligence Unit: e-readiness 2008 ranked out of 70 countries[2]
• The second position among G20 countries for telecoms expansion [3]

• United Nations: Population ranked out of 221 countries
• Population density ranked out of 241 countries
• United Nations report World Population Policies 2005, Number of immigrants ranked out of 192 countries

• United Nations: Human Development Index, ranked out of 177 countries
• Nominal GDP growth rate: ranked out of 215 countries
• Nominal GDP: ranked13 out of 179 countries ($ IMF; $ World Bank; $ CIA)
• Nominal GDP per capita 2006, ranked out of 179 IMF; out of 170 World Bank; out of 185 CIA
• A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine: Globalization Index 2006, ranked out of 62 countries
• The Wall Street Journal: 2006 Index of Economic Freedom, ranked out of 155 countries
• The Economist: Worldwide Quality-of-life Index, 2005, ranked out of 111 countries
• World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Index 2006-2007, ranked 24 out of 125 countries
• World Tourism Organization World Tourism rankings ranked out of all countries[4]
• World Economic Forum: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008, ranked out of 130 countries[5]

• Yale University Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network: Environmental Sustainability Index, ranked out of 145 countries[16]
• US Department of Energy: CO² emissions per capita 2004, ranked out of 206 countries[17]
• The World Factbook: water resources ranked out of 174 countries[18]

• Total area ranked out of 234 countries

• KOF: Index of Globalization 2007, ranked out of 122 countries[19]
• A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine: Globalization Index 2006, ranked out of 62 countries[20]

• OICA automobile production 2007, ranked out of 51 countries[21] The first country of the Arab World to invest in industrial heritage, 2019, International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage.[22]

• Center for Strategic and International Studies: active troops ranked out of 166 countries[23]

• Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked 80th out of 180 countries
• Reporters without borders: Worldwide press freedom index, ranked 163 out of 167 countries
• The Economist Democracy Index 2007, ranked 161 out of 167 countries

• Save the Children: State of the World's Mothers report 2006, ranked out of 110 countries
• World Health Organization: Suicide rate ranked out of 100 countries

• OECD: number of broadband Internet users 2007, ranked out of the 30 OECD countries[24]
• Brown University Taubman Center for Public Policy 2006: ranked in online government services[25][26]
• Internet Freedom
• The 1st rank in the Arab World in the Global Cybersecurity Index[27]
• The 13th worldwide rank in Global Cybersecurity Index[28]