Saudi Arabia
SAU · 2024 energy mix · renewables 0.7% · fossil fuels 99.3%
Threat reading 19 of 100, classified STABLE. 1 events recorded here in the last seven days, 1 in the last thirty.
That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.
Where its energy comes from
| Oil | 62.3% |
|---|---|
| Gas | 36.9% |
| Solar | 0.6% |
| Coal | 0.1% |
| Wind | 0.1% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 0.7% and fossil fuels for 99.3%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Saudi Arabia is close to balanced on electricity trade.
Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 3 significant earthquakes and one significant eruption in or just off Saudi Arabia since 640.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 5.7, on 19 May 2009 (Saudi Arabia: Western).
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2009 | magnitude 5.7 earthquake | Saudi Arabia: Western | - |
| 17 May 2009 | magnitude 4.6 earthquake | Saudi Arabia: Western | damage under $1 million |
| 9 June 2004 | magnitude 4.6 earthquake | Saudi Arabia: Western | damage under $1 million |
| 640 | VEI 2 eruption | Uwayrid, Harrat, Arabia-W | - |
A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
In the last 30 days
The most recent events our feeds placed in Saudi Arabia:
- 7 November 2026: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 6 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 15 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 10 |
| Natural hazard | 0 |
| Resilience | 86 |
Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.
Other countries tracked
Where the data comes from
Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.