Vision 2030's halfway report card

When Vision 2030Vision 2030The kingdom's overarching economic and social transformation program, announced in April 2016. Built around three themes: a vibrant society, a thriving economy, an ambitious nation. Sets quantitative targets across labor, tourism, housing, healthcare, and other sectors, all benchmarked to 2030.→ Read more in the glossary launched in April 2016, the program organized itself around three pillars — a vibrant society, a thriving economy, and an ambitious nation — implemented through a dozen Vision Realization Programs and tracked through a large set of KPIs at both the program and program-component levels.

The annual reports, the most recent of which (2024) was published in May 2025, score this large indicator universe in three categories: achieved (the target has been met or exceeded), on-track (the trajectory is consistent with reaching the target), and behind (the trajectory will not reach the target without additional measures).

What does 93% actually contain? A few highlights, organized as the pillars:

A thriving economy

The economic pillar has been the strongest delivery story. Non-oil exportsNon-oil exportsGoods and services exported by Saudi entities that aren't crude oil, oil derivatives, or related petroleum products. A key Vision 2030 diversification indicator. Non-oil exports moved from SAR 184B in 2017 to SAR 624B in 2025, with petrochemicals, building materials, food products, and services as the fastest-growing categories.→ Read more in the glossary at a record SAR 624 billion in 2025, FDIFDI — Foreign Direct InvestmentInvestment by foreign individuals or firms that takes the form of direct ownership of a business or asset (10%+ stake), as opposed to portfolio investment (passive equity holdings). The kingdom's FDI inflows rose from SAR 28B in 2017 to SAR 133B in 2025.→ Read more in the glossary inflows at SAR 133 billion (a roughly 5x increase from baseline), and PIFPIF — Public Investment FundSaudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. Originally established in 1971 to hold state stakes in domestic industrial champions like SABIC, it was designated under Vision 2030 as the primary instrument for economic diversification. Assets grew from SAR 720B in 2017 to SAR 3.41T in 2025.→ Read more in the glossary assets at SAR 3.41 trillion — all numbers that would have looked implausible from 2017 vantage. The structural shift away from oil dependence is, by any internationally comparable benchmark, ahead of schedule.

A vibrant society

Quality-of-life indicators have moved sharply in the right direction. Life expectancy is approaching 80 years (up from 74 at baseline), homeownership has crossed 65%, and the entertainment sector — which barely existed in 2017 — drew 89 million visitors in 2025. Tourism reached 122 million visitors, putting the kingdom on track for its 150M target by 2030.

An ambitious nation

Public-sector transformation is the most measurable of the three pillars. Digital government, AbsherAbsherThe kingdom's citizen-services super-app, launched in 2010 by the Ministry of Interior and steadily expanded. Hosts ~200+ government services in one interface: passport and ID services, license and vehicle registration, residency permits, civil records, and dependent management. Processed over 430 million transactions in 2024 — roughly 12 transactions per Saudi resident per year.→ Read more in the glossary service maturity, the citizen account program, and AI training scale all show clear delivery. The Vision 2030 program management office (the VRO under MEP) has been one of the most aggressively reorganized delivery vehicles in any major government in this decade.

The 7% in the “behind” bucket is what the next planning cycle is for. Most of those indicators are in the deeper structural domains — productivity, certain education outcomes, certain health outcomes — that respond to policy intervention on multi-year time horizons. The portal will track these as new data lands.