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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2009 Article IV Consultation with Saudi Arabia 6 Riyadh


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Real oil GDP 6.2 -0.8 0.5 4.8 -10.3
Real non-oil GDP 5.2 5.1 4.7 4.3 3.3
Nominal GDP (in billions of U.S. dollars) 316 357 384 469 377
Consumer price index 0.6 2.3 4.1 9.9 4.5
Fiscal and Financial variables (In percent of GDP)
Central Government revenue 48.0 50.8 44.7 62.6 40.6
Of which: oil revenue 42.7 45.3 39.1 55.9 35.0
Central Government expenditure 29.6 29.8 32.4 29.6 40.2
Fiscal balance (deficit -) 18.4 21.0 12.3 33.0 0.4
Non-oil primary balance -46.2 -48.2 -55.8 -58.3 -63.6
Change in broad money (in percent) 11.6 19.3 19.6 17.6 8.5
Interest rates (in percent) 3.8 5.0 4.8 3.1 1.1
External sector (In billion U.S. dollars)
Exports 180.8 211.3 233.5 313.9 188.0
Of which: Oil and refined products 161.8 188.5 205.6 281.4 159.1
Imports -54.6 -63.9 -82.7 -101.6 -89.5
Current account 90.1 99.1 93.5 134.2 14.1
Current account (in percent of GDP) 28.5 27.8 24.3 28.6 3.7
SAMA's net foreign assets 150.5 221.4 301.3 438.5 475.1
SAMA's net foreign assets (in months of imports) 15.7 18.1 20.1 31.6 32.4
of goods and services)
Real effective exchange rate (percent change) -2.7 -1.6 -2.8 2.3 …

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