Half of Kingdom’s population under 15

RIYADH, 9 August — Fifty percent of the Saudi population are under 15, according to a study conducted by the Statistics Department.

It said a third of the national workforce is aged between 20 and 39 years and that 89.76 percent of them are educated. The study noted that women outnumbered men in literacy, their percentage being 93.21 for women against 89.20 for men. (SPA)