Editing Economy of Saudi Arabia (section)

===Demographics===
{{further|Demographics of Saudi Arabia}}
The Saudi population is young. About 51% of the total population are under the age of 25 (as of February 2012).<ref name=Murphy>{{cite web|last=Murphy|first=Caryle|title=Saudi Arabia's Youth and the Kingdom's Future|url=http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/02/saudi-arabias-youth-and-the-kingdoms-future/|date=7 February 2012|publisher=Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Environmental Change and Security Program|access-date=13 May 2014|archive-date=26 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226064805/https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/02/saudi-arabias-youth-and-the-kingdoms-future/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to a 2013 report by the [[International Monetary Fund]], up to 1.6&nbsp;million young nationals of the [[Arab states of the Persian Gulf|Persian Gulf countries]] (of which Saudi Arabia is the largest) will enter the workforce from 2013 to 2018, but the economies of those countries will have jobs in the private sector for less than half (approximately 600,000).<ref name=AP-2013>{{cite web|title=Saudi Arabia needs private sector growth to stem youth unemployment, business leaders say|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/saudi-arabia-needs-private-sector-growth-to-stem-youth-unemployment-business-leaders-say/|date=3 December 2013|agency=Associated Press|work=Fox News|access-date=12 May 2014|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924184700/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/03/saudi-arabia-needs-private-sector-growth-to-stem-youth-unemployment-business/|url-status=live}}</ref>