Every Saudi worker with a job provides for three dependents, according to recent analysis by Aleqtesadiah newspaper.

This translates into 320 dependents per 100 employed people, according to figures gathered after the first six months of the year.

The age dependency ratio for those of working age, whether they have a job or not, stands at 2.7 individuals per person of working age. This means the ratio for the Saudi population is 271 people per 100 employees.

According to the World Bank, the age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents, people younger than 15 or older than 64, to the working-age population, those aged 15 to 64. The ratio is calculated per 100 persons of working age.

The Saudi population was 20.3 million at the end of 2013. Therefore, the dependency economic ratio for the Saudi population per 100 people is 271.

There are 657,000 people in the work force that do not work, thus the dependency ratio is 3.2 per person, which means every 100 Saudis provide for about 320 others.

By the middle of this year, there were 5.55 million Saudis in the work force, with males accounting for 4.4 million or 78 percent, and 1.2 million females, or 22 percent.

The number of Saudis employed stood at 4.9 million, with males accounting for 84 percent or 4.1 million, while the number of females working was at 796,000, representing 16 percent.

The number of unemployed Saudis stood at 657,000 people, with males at 40 percent or 260,300, while females accounted for 60 percent or 396,700.

At the end of last year, the number of unemployed male Saudis stood at 261,400 and females at 361,100. The number of unemployed females rose by 9 percent, while unemployed males fell by 0.4 percent.