Rights Tracker

About

Methodology

Download Data
rights tracker
All countries

Saudi Arabia

How well is Saudi Arabia respecting people's human rights?

Use the tabs below to explore the scores.

rights tracker

Saudi Arabia at a glance

Download PDF

Quality of Life

Economic and Social Rights

(2021)

Summary score

N/A

How well is Saudi Arabia doing compared to what is possible at its level of income?

Right to

0

% of income adjusted benchmark achieved

HRMI score

100%

Very bad

Bad

Fair

Good


Safety from the State

Civil and Political Rights

(2023)

Summary score

3.9

How well is Saudi Arabia's government respecting each right?

Right to freedom from

0

Score

10

Very bad

Bad

Fair

Good


Empowerment

Civil and Political Rights

(2023)

Summary score

1.7

How well is Saudi Arabia's government respecting each right?

Right to

0

Score

10

Very bad

Bad

Fair

Good


Source: HRMI 2024 rightstracker.org

Quality of Life

For Saudi Arabia no rights scores are available due to missing data in the relevant international databases. With more funding, HRMI could investigate the reason for each data gap, and explore ways to help fill it.

Safety from the State

Saudi Arabia's Safety from the State score of 3.9 out of 10 suggests that many people are not safe from one or more of the following: arbitrary arrest, torture and ill-treatment, forced disappearance, execution, or extrajudicial killing.

For civil and political rights, we don't have sufficient data across Middle East and North Africa countries to allow for a regional comparison. However, when compared to the other countries in our sample, Saudi Arabia is performing lower than average on the right to be safe from the state.

Explore Details

Empowerment

Saudi Arabia's Empowerment score of 1.7 out of 10 suggests that many people are not enjoying their civil liberties and political freedoms (freedom of speech, assembly and association, democratic rights, and religion and belief).

For civil and political rights, we don't have sufficient data across Middle East and North Africa countries to allow for a regional comparison. However, when compared to the other countries in our sample, Saudi Arabia is performing lower than average on empowerment rights.