The number of commercial companies operating in the Kingdom rose to 21,130, with their capital totaling SR 851 billion until 2013, according to statistics released by the Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC).

The share-holding and limited liability companies accounted for 74.3 percent and 24.2 percent of the total companies respectively, the CSC data showed.

The cumulative number of companies and business firms in the Kingdom stood at nearly 868,000. The Riyadh region captured 30.8 percent of the total, followed by Makkah region (24.4 percent), the Eastern region (17.2 percent), and then Madinah and Qassim (5.6 percent and 5.5 percent respectively). Share of other regions in the Kingdom stood at 16.4 percent of the total firms.

The scope of activities included trade, services, industry, agriculture, energy, education, health, financial services insurance, financial institutions, telecommunications, transportation, and water and electricity sectors, the data showed.

According to statistics, the number of companies working in the field of installment stood at 300 companies, with their capital amounting to SR 18.1 billion distributed over major cities of the Kingdom. Riyadh captured 56 percent of such companies, followed by Jeddah (31 percent), while Makkah, Allhobar and Dammam accounted for 7.3 percent of the installment firms.

According to the statistics, the number of private general education schools rose to 3,241, representing 8.9 percent of the total number of general education schools in the Kingdom.

The number of private hospitals reached 127, representing about 30.6 percent of the total number of hospitals in the Kingdom, with their capacity at 12,817 beds, or 22 percent of the total number of beds in the Kingdom’s hospitals.

Meanwhile, the number of private clinics in the Kingdom rose to 2,012, mostly concentrated in the areas of Makkah, Riyadh, and the Eastern Province, the data showed.