Saudi Arabia GIP Digital Presentation

Saudi Arabia

Global Issues Project

12 Innovation and Infastructure

01 Cover

02 Index

03 World Map

13 Good Health & Well Being

04 Flag and Map

14 Climate Action

05 Historical Overview/Significance

15 Clean Water & Sanitation

Index

06 Historical Overview & Significance

16 Creator

07 Historical Overview & Significance

18 References

08 Timeline

09 Data Snapshot

10 Data Snapshot

11 Data Snapshot

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Capital: Riyadh

Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

“There is no god but God: Muhammad is the Messenger of God”

Historical Overview & Significance

• Islam emerged in Saudi Arabia under the prophet Muhammad in 610 C.E. (Hakim, 2014)

• In 1932 Saudi state was established by Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

• In 1990, Saudi Arabia allowed refugees from Kuwait and the United States military to cross their borders after Iraq invaded Kuwait. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

• United States troops left the country in 2003 but returned to Saudi Arabia in 2019 when the oil infrastructure came under attack. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Historical Overview & Significance

• Modernization of Saudi Arabia occurred between 2005 and 2015 by Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

• In 2015 King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz opened cinemas, lifted the ban on women driving, started green initiatives, and started education reform as a way to speed up the reforms set by his predecessor. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

• 2005 and 2011 saw the first elections ever. In 2015 women were allowed to vote for the first time. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Historical Overview & Significance

• Salman of Saudia Arabia is the King but his son Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the current de facto leader of Saudi Arabia and heir to the throne. (Fahmy, 2020)

• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia holds approximately 17% of the world's oil reserves making it the 4th richest Arab country and 15th richest in the world. (Mappr, 2022)

• Vision 2030 was a socio-economic reform set forth by the Saudi Government and was announced in 2016. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

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Historical Overview & Significance

United States troops left the country in 2003 but returned to Saudi Arabia in 2019 when the oil infrastructure came under attack. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz opened cinemas, lifted the ban on women driving, started green initiatives, and started education reform as a way to speed up the reforms set by his predecessor. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Saudi Arabia allowed refugees from Kuwait and the United States military to cross their borders after Iraq invaded Kuwait. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

United States troops left the country in 2003 but returned to Saudi Arabia in 2019 when the oil infrastructure came under attack. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Saudi state was established by Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Islam emerged in Saudi Arabia under the prophet Muhammad. (Hakim, 2014)

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2019

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610 C.E.

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2018

Women were allowed to vote for the first time. (Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Ethinic Groups

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Age Structure

(Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

(Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Age Structure by Gender

(Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Life Expectancy at Birth

(Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Religion in Saudi Arabia

(Central Intelligence Agency, 2022)

Islam is the country's official religion and no other religion is allowed to be practiced publicly. Only Muslims are allowed to have citizenship. Only Muslims may have a place of worship.

Innovation & Infrastructure

A Strength for Saudi Arabia

In 2016, Saudi Arabia released the Saudi Vision 2030 which was a proposal to find alternative ways other than oil to sustain their economy. (Al-Mohmmad & Butler, 2021)

The aim is to promote tourism beyond religious tourism with a focus on cultural heritage via events and festivals by implementing the Saudi Seasons program in 2019. (Al-Mohmmad & Butler, 2021)

Innovation& Infrastructure

The Riyadh Season which is part of the Saudi Seasons showed 110% growth pre-Covid-19, which equated to 11 million visitors so the programs were working remarkably well. (Al-Mohmmad & Butler, 2021)

Climate Action

Saudi Green Initiative

Strength for the future of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia faces a dwindling underground water supply, air pollution, oil spills along the coast, and inadequate waste management.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-SAUD (Mohammed bin Salman, 2021)

Raise protected areas to more than 30% of total marine and terrestrial area (BIN SALMAN, 2022)

Reduce carbon emissions by more than 278 mtpa by 2030 (BIN SALMAN, 2022)

Plant 10 Billion trees across Saudi Arabia. (BIN SALMAN, 2022)

Climate Action

Saudi Arabia is making some hefty goals to reduce carbon emissions and to be considered a green country. They make no mention of reducing their oil production which suggests the green initiative will only offset the continued drilling for oil.

(BIN SALMAN, 2022)

Good Health & Well Being

A strength of Saudi Arabia

Aim to improve healthcare access by investing in e-Health.E-Health would include things such as telehealth, telemedicine, and mobile health. The Covid-19 Pandemic shed a spotlight on the importance of increasing standardized medicine that can reach people all over the kingdom. (Alanazi et al., 2021)

Healthcare is free under the Ministry of Health for all Saudi citizens. (Walston, S., Al-Harbi, Y., & Al-Omar, B. 2008)

Clean Water & Sanitation

A Strength for Saudi Arabia

Demand for water is growing around 7-8% annually. (2021) Saudi Arabia is aiming to reduce consumption by importing food, implementing tariffs, (2021) Saudi Arabia's goal is to reduce consumption by 24% by 2021 and 43% by 2030. (2021)

Saudi Arabia relies on underground water resources and it consumes some of the most water in the world. (2021) Due to the large amounts of water needed, solar-powered-desalination plants produce water, and the "grey water" which is non-potable is reused in other areas. (2021)

Sociology

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References

Hakim, S. (2014). Teachers guide - muslims | teacher center | frontline. PBS. Retrieved July 13, 2022, from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/muslims/timeline.html Central Intelligence Agency. (2022, July 1). Explore All Countries Saudi Arabia. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved July 13, 2022, from https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/saudi-arabia/ Mappr. (2022, March 23). Top 10 richest Arab countries in 2021. Mappr. Retrieved July 13, 2022, from https://www.mappr.co/thematic-maps/richest-arab-countries/ Fahmy, D. (2020, July 27). 5 facts about religion in Saudi Arabia. Pew Research Center. Retrieved July 13, 2022, from https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/12/5-facts-about-religion-in-saudi-arabia/ Al-Mohmmad, S., & Butler, G. (2021). Tourism SME Stakeholder Perspectives on the inaugural ‘saudi seasons’: An exploratory study of emerging opportunities and challenges. Tourism and Hospitality Management, 27(3), 669–687. https://doi.org/10.20867/thm.27.3.11 Saudi Green Initiative. (2021). Saudi Green Initiative. YouTube. Retrieved July 13, 2022, from https://youtu.be/2Ioqjp82-UI. BIN SALMAN, MOAMMED. (2022, January 10). Saudi Green Initiative . Saudi Green Initiative. Retrieved July 13, 2022, from https://www.saudigreeninitiative.org/about-saudi-green-initiative/ Fuhid Alanazi, Valerie Gay, Mohammad N. Alanazi and Ryan Alturki, “Modelling Health Process and System Requirements Engineering for Better e-Health Services in Saudi Arabia” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(1), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120163 Walston, S., Al-Harbi, Y., & Al-Omar, B. (2008). The changing face of healthcare in Saudi Arabia. Annals of Saudi medicine, 28(4), 243–250. https://doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2008.243 Water in Saudi Arabia: Desalination, wastewater, and privatization. USSBC. (2021, January 25). Retrieved June 29, 2022, from https://ussaudi.org/water-in-saudi-arabia-desalination-wastewater-and-privatization/