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Public opinion and socioeconomic subgroup evidence from approved external survey sources. Exact source framing and methodological caveats remain visible.

Saudi Arabia · Community

70.9% say their neighbors care about their wellbeing

More than seven in ten respondents in Saudi Arabia said their neighbors care about them and their wellbeing a lot or somewhat.

Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll · Fieldwork 2025 · N=1,018

People · Generations · Financial milestones

The “maybe later” economy.

Housing, education, work and family choices increasingly collide with financial pressure. PolisMetric keeps the U.S. Pew benchmark separate from Deloitte’s same-wave Gen Z and millennial country evidence so unlike questions are never forced into one ranking.

Financial milestones: country evidence not yet available
Evidence gap

No source-verified 2026 country topline is published here yet for Saudi Arabia.

No country-specific 2026 financial-milestones topline has been source-verified for publication in the current governed pass. Missing is not estimated.

Missing is kept missing — never estimated, copied from a regional average or treated as zero.
Same-question international comparison

Financial pressure is delaying major life decisions.

These 15 country results come from the same Deloitte 2026 survey wave and the same question. Paired dots show published percentages for Gen Z and millennials; the connector shows the gap. This is not a quality ranking. Countries without a verified national value remain outside the ranking.

Thailand65%57%
Philippines64%64%
Argentina59%67%
Mexico57%52%
Italy56%51%
Australia55%45%
India54%44%
Sweden52%49%
Singapore51%50%
Netherlands51%45%
Switzerland46%60%
United Kingdom46%46%
China46%35%
Germany45%39%
Brazil45%36%

Deloitte Global 2026 Gen Z and Millennial Survey · fielded Nov. 24, 2025–Jan. 15, 2026 · online self-complete survey. The global study includes 22,595 respondents in 44 countries; this chart contains only source-verified country cuts in the current PolisMetric evidence pass.

Research status

Country-specific research remains open. The international chart above is evidence from other countries and is not presented as a value for Saudi Arabia.

Source
Deloitte Global 2026 Gen Z and Millennial Survey
Population
Gen Z and millennials in the source-defined national samples
Fieldwork
2025-11-24/2026-01-15
Sample
22,595 across 44 countries; country sample sizes vary
Uncertainty
Not supplied for these displayed estimates; consult the source methodology.
Question and methods

Share saying finances caused them to delay major life decisions. The separate U.S. Pew anchor uses a different population and question.

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Source-defined populations and questions remain separate. Missing observations are not estimated or changed to zero.

People Intelligence · Saudi Arabia · Young women

Political divides and mental health — measured as separate evidence streams.

PolisMetric does not assume that the U.S. pattern applies everywhere. For Saudi Arabia, political or gender-attitude evidence is shown only when a governed source supports it, and mental-health evidence is kept methodologically separate. An association is never inferred merely because both measures appear on the same page.

CoveragePolitics gap · Mental-health evidenceNo synthetic national values
Political / values evidence

Directly comparable youth evidence not located

Governed evidence gap
Evidence gapNo comparable national youth-politics subgroup is published in this module.

No directly comparable country-specific young-women political/ideology subgroup result was located in the governed cross-country sources used for this module.

Mental-health evidence

Young-adult mind-health position

Ages 18–34 · 2024–2025

Sapien Labs' Global Mind Project ranks Saudi Arabia's internet-enabled 18–34 population at #25 of 84. This is a young-adult country context, not a women-only result and not a depression prevalence estimate.

Global young-adult referenceMHQ 36 · 41% distressed/strugglingGlobal 18–34 reference from the same report; not a national value for Saudi Arabia.
Interpretation ruleDo not turn two separate datasets into a causal story.

Political ideology, party affiliation, feminist self-identification, psychological distress and MHQ are different constructs. Cross-country cultural and sampling differences also matter. PolisMetric keeps the measures separate unless a single defensible study directly estimates their relationship in the same population.

POLISMETRICEvidence before narrative
Source & method

Country values are never filled from regional or global averages. Ipsos' Gen Z numbers are shown only as a labeled 29-country benchmark. The Global Mind Project reflects internet-enabled populations and cautions that MHQ differences of up to five points can fall within sampling noise.

Trusted sources · Health & wellness · 2018 baseline

Saudi Arabia: who people trusted for health advice.

A directly comparable baseline from the Wellcome Global Monitor. “Most trusted source,” trust in government advice, and trust in medical workers are kept as separate measures. The survey was fielded in 2018; newer country-specific evidence is shown separately when a governed source is available.

Most trusted source71.2%

named doctors or nurses as the person they trusted most for medical or health advice.

2018 national sample n=1,016 · prevalence rank #26 of 35 current PolisMetric countries
Most trusted source · Q20

One question, six answer groups.

Bars use the full weighted country sample denominator, matching Wellcome’s published convention. “Don’t know” and refusals remain in the denominator and are preserved as missing-response metadata.

Doctors & nurses71.2%
Family & friends14.9%
Religious leaders7.7%
Traditional healers3.4%
Famous people2.1%
None / someone else0.4%

Don’t know / refused: 0.2% of the weighted sample.

Source trust · Q21—

Government medical & health advice

Share answering that they trust government medical and health advice a lot or some.

Question unavailable in this country record; missing is not zero.
Source trust · Q2284.8%

Medical workers’ advice

Share saying they trust advice from medical workers such as doctors and nurses a lot or some.

35-country comparison

Compare the same question across PolisMetric countries.

Switch measures to inspect directly comparable 2018 values. Bars show response prevalence, not a quality score or PolisMetric ranking.

Doctors or nurses named as the single most trusted sourceQ20: share of the weighted country sample naming a doctor or nurse as the person trusted most for medical or health advice.
Saudi Arabia 71.2%Median 79.7%Available 35/35
1Singapore93.5%
2Norway93.2%
3Canada91.1%
4Italy90.7%
5Malaysia90.7%
6United Kingdom90.3%
7Belgium90.2%
8Sweden89.5%
9Australia89.4%
10France88.7%
11Thailand88.7%
12Spain88.1%
13United States88.1%
14Ireland85.2%
15Netherlands84%
16Taiwan83.3%
17Mexico81.4%
18Switzerland79.7%
19Argentina79.1%
20Vietnam78.7%
21India76.8%
22Indonesia76.1%
23Türkiye75.9%
24South Africa74.3%
25Poland71.9%
26Saudi Arabia71.2%
27South Korea71.2%
28Russia69.8%
29Philippines69.6%
30Japan69%
31Brazil65.1%
32Germany63.3%
33Israel63.1%
34China62.4%
35Austria58.7%
Dashed marker = median among countries with a published value for this exact measure. Hover, tap or use Tab to inspect rows.
Source & reuse

Gallup (2019), Wellcome Global Monitor – First Wave Findings. PolisMetric visualization and weighted aggregation from published survey fields. The Wellcome report states that its data and text are distributed under CC BY with attribution; report images are excluded. PolisMetric uses original charts and does not reproduce Wellcome’s graphic design.

Country percentages use the public within-country survey weight (wgt) and the full weighted country sample denominator, matching Wellcome's published country convention. Q21/Q22 combine 'A lot' + 'Some'. Don't know/refused responses remain in the denominator and are preserved as missing-response metadata; unavailable questions remain null and are never converted to zero. Fieldwork: April–December 2018. This supplemental module does not count as five independent People sources.

Source
Wellcome Global Monitor 2018
Population
Nationally representative adult country samples under Gallup World Poll methodology; exact eligible ages and interview modes vary by country.
Fieldwork
April–December 2018
Sample
Saudi Arabia: N=1,016
Uncertainty
Not supplied for these displayed estimates; consult the source methodology.
Question and methods

Country percentages use the public within-country survey weight (wgt) and the full weighted country sample denominator, matching Wellcome's published country convention. Q21/Q22 combine 'A lot' + 'Some'. Don't know/refused responses remain in the denominator and are preserved as missing-response metadata; unavailable questions remain null and are never converted to zero.

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Source-defined populations and questions remain separate. Missing observations are not estimated or changed to zero.

AI & society · Pew Research Center · 2026

Pew's 2026 AI study did not survey Saudi Arabia.

PolisMetric does not estimate, model or backfill a Pew value when the country was not included in this release. Other People evidence remains separate.

No directly comparable Pew 2026 observation.

Not surveyed in Pew Research Center's 2026 global AI attitudes release.

Missing is kept missing. It is not treated as zero and does not receive a comparative rank.
Source

Pew Research Center, Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth, published Sept. 17, 2026.

Pew surveyed 37 places overall. This PolisMetric comparison is restricted to the 25 countries that overlap the canonical 35-country universe. Source results are reproduced as attributed public toplines; PolisMetric does not reinterpret them as an original poll.

Source
Pew Research Center · Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth
Population
Source-defined national adult samples
Fieldwork
Country not surveyed
Sample
Country sample sizes: see the linked methodology
Uncertainty
Not supplied for these displayed estimates; consult the source methodology.
Question and methods

The selected measure uses the exact Pew topline question. U.S. fieldwork differs by measure, as printed on each card.

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Source-defined populations and questions remain separate. Missing observations are not estimated or changed to zero.

Saudi Arabia · People Intelligence

Five sources. Five different stories.

Each finding comes from a different approved source and covers a different part of public life. Open the data view to inspect the measure, sample, evidence note and original source.

Community2025
Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll01 / 05

70.9% say their neighbors care about their wellbeing

Key findingMore than seven in ten respondents in Saudi Arabia said their neighbors care about them and their wellbeing a lot or somewhat.
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Community

70.9% say their neighbors care about their wellbeing

2025
Published observations · 2025
Measure / groupPublished value
Married / partner53.1%
Neighbors care70.9%
1+ month buffer72.6%
Mental-health harm worry25%
Violent-crime harm worry35.7%
Question / measure

Neighbors Care About You and Your Wellbeing: A lot or somewhat

Sample

n 1,018

Evidence

canonical observation

Use class

OPEN ATTRIBUTION

Finding

More than seven in ten respondents in Saudi Arabia said their neighbors care about them and their wellbeing a lot or somewhat.

Evidence note

Canonical World Risk Poll observation lrf-wrp-2025-sau-neighbors_care_wellbeing; weighted national estimate 70.9%.

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Life evaluation2023–2025
World Happiness Report / Gallup World Poll02 / 05

Average life evaluation is 6.817 out of 10

Key findingWorld Happiness Report 2026 reports Saudi Arabia's three-year average life evaluation at 6.817 on the 0-to-10 Cantril Ladder.
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Life evaluation

Average life evaluation is 6.817 out of 10

2023–2025
Published observations · 2023–2025
Measure / groupPublished value
2023–2025 average6.817 / 10
Question / measure

Cantril Ladder life evaluation, 0–10

Sample

Gallup World Poll national samples; see World Happiness Report methodology

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

World Happiness Report 2026 reports Saudi Arabia's three-year average life evaluation at 6.817 on the 0-to-10 Cantril Ladder.

Evidence note

World Happiness Report 2026 Figure 2.1 reports Saudi Arabia at 6.817, based on Gallup World Poll 2023–2025 life evaluations.

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Technology use2026
Saudi Center for Opinion Polling (SCOP)03 / 05

64% say they use artificial-intelligence tools

Key findingThe Saudi Center for Opinion Polling reports that 64% of Saudi society uses artificial-intelligence tools in its 2026 national survey.
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Technology use

64% say they use artificial-intelligence tools

2026
Published observations · 2026
Measure / groupPublished value
Using artificial-intelligence tools64%
Question / measure

Use of artificial-intelligence tools

Sample

n 814

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

The Saudi Center for Opinion Polling reports that 64% of Saudi society uses artificial-intelligence tools in its 2026 national survey.

Evidence note

Saudi Center for Opinion Polling reports 64% of Saudi society uses artificial-intelligence tools in its 2026 survey of 814 Saudi citizens age 18+.

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Economic outlookMay 2026
Ipsos04 / 05

Saudi Arabia's consumer sentiment index stood at 70.8

Key findingIpsos' May 2026 Primary Consumer Sentiment Index put Saudi Arabia at 70.8, reflecting attitudes toward economic conditions, personal finances, investment and saving.
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Economic outlook

Saudi Arabia's consumer sentiment index stood at 70.8

May 2026
Published observations · May 2026
Measure / groupPublished value
Primary Consumer Sentiment Index70.8
Question / measure

Primary Consumer Sentiment Index

Sample

Saudi Arabia PCSI adult sample; see publisher methodology

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

Ipsos' May 2026 Primary Consumer Sentiment Index put Saudi Arabia at 70.8, reflecting attitudes toward economic conditions, personal finances, investment and saving.

Evidence note

Ipsos reports Saudi Arabia's Primary Consumer Sentiment Index stood at 70.8 in May 2026.

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Household confidenceSeptember 2025
General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT)05 / 05

Official consumer confidence index reached 113.9

Key findingSaudi Arabia's General Authority for Statistics reported a Consumer Confidence Index of 113.9 in September 2025.
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Household confidence

Official consumer confidence index reached 113.9

September 2025
Published observations · September 2025
Measure / groupPublished value
General Consumer Confidence Index113.9
Question / measure

General Consumer Confidence Index

Sample

n 6,000

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Statistics reported a Consumer Confidence Index of 113.9 in September 2025.

Evidence note

Saudi General Authority for Statistics reports the General Consumer Confidence Index at 113.9 in September 2025, from a telephone survey of approximately 6,000 individuals selected from the Saudi Census 2022 frame.

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