At the end of the first quarter of 2022, Saudi women reported the lowest unemployment rate in 20 years, according to local media.
The Okaz newspaper reported that the unemployment rate among Saudi women aged 15 or older was 20.2% at the end of Q1, compared with 22.5 percent by the end of Q4 of 2021.
According to the paper, this is the lowest unemployment rate for Saudi women in 20 years, since 2001 when it was 17.3 percent.
The economic participation rate of Saudi women in the labour market, which stood at 35.6% at the end of the fourth quarter of 2021, fell to 33.6% by the end of the first quarter of 2022.
Saudi women were participating in the economy at a record-breaking rate at the end of the fourth quarter of 2021.
According to the report, Saudi women's economic participation has exceeded the 25 percent agreed upon in the National Transformation Program 2020, though the baseline figure recorded in 2017 was 17 percent.
