United KingdomandSaudi Arabia

12 July 927 · 1744

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

United Kingdom

12 July 927 — The monarchs of Britain recognise Æthelstan as king of the English

Dossier →Chronicle →

Saudi Arabia

1744 — The Diriyah pact founds the First Saudi State

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

GBRSAU
  • GDP
    $4.00 T2025$1.28 T2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $57,6022025$34,5372025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    1.4%20254.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    3.9%20252.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    62.5%202557.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

GBRSAU
  • Population
    69 m202537 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    81.4 yrs202479.0 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    83.3%202584.6%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.620242.32024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

GBRSAU

Health

GBRSAU
  • Health spending
    11.1%20245.7%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    3.3020233.412023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    4.720246.02024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    89.0%202496.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    99.8%2024—
    Observed 2024 / — · figures compared, never graded

Education

GBRSAU
  • Education spending
    5.9%20214.5%2023
    Observed 2021 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    102.2%2023104.0%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    112.1%2023110.7%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    80.4%202383.9%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Adult literacy
    —97.9%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

GBRSAU
  • R&D spending
    2.7%20230.6%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    4,47320171,2352024
    Observed 2017 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    95.5%2024100.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    12220241602024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    29.2%20240.5%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

GBRSAU
  • Land area
    241,930 km²20232,149,690 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    13.3%20230.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    70.3%202380.8%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    4.2202418.52024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    12.2%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

GBRSAU
  • Resource rents
    0.6%202125.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.4%202123.7%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20210.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%2024100.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Bauxite
    —5.7 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Phosphate rock
    —10 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

GBRSAU
  • Military burden
    2.3%20247.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $82 B2024$80 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    153,0002020282,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 20 May 1927

    The Treaty of Jeddah

    Britain formally recognized the independence and sovereignty of Ibn Saud's Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd, securing its international standing.

    Independence · from the Saudi Arabia chronicle · Unification and the Founding of the Kingdom (1902-1932) · REFS 2 — Treaty of Jeddah (United Kingdom-Saudi Arabia, 1927), Treaty of Jeddah (1927)