Fact · Self-pay
Dental public coverage: Saudi Arabia, 2023
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Saudi Arabia: MOH provides dental care in its hospitals, dental centres and primary health care centres, used almost entirely by Saudi nationals: in 2023, 4,734,417 of 4,754,977 visits to MOH dental clinics were by Saudis. Expatriates and private-sector employees rely on mandatory employment-based health insurance regulated by the Council of Health Insurance, whose dental benefit is capped; the current schedule was not fetched this session. in 2023, according to Ministry of Health Statistical Yearbook 2023. Basis: other.
Comparability C Confidence medium
Cite this
Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. (2026). Dental public coverage: Saudi Arabia, as of 2023-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/sa/dental-public-coverage/2023/
Permanent URL: https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/sa/dental-public-coverage/2023/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Record
- Value
- MOH provides dental care in its hospitals, dental centres and primary health care centres, used almost entirely by Saudi nationals: in 2023, 4,734,417 of 4,754,977 visits to MOH dental clinics were by Saudis. Expatriates and private-sector employees rely on mandatory employment-based health insurance regulated by the Council of Health Insurance, whose dental benefit is capped; the current schedule was not fetched this session.
- Unit
- text
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- medium
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- other
- Scope
- other
- Comparability
- Comparability C C: different basis; use with caution when comparing
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
Total 20,560 4,734,417 963,588 2,034,862 1,756,527 4,754,977 | Include dental clinics in the hospitals, dental centers and PHC | Source: General Directorate for Dentistry
Locator: MOH Statistical Yearbook 2023, Table 4-16 'Encounters to Dental Clinics, MoH by Sex, Nationality and Health Region, 2023G', Total row (Non-Saudi, Saudi, Child, Female, Male, No. of encounters) and footnote
Local definition
Public (MOH) dental service delivery plus a summary of the insurance arrangement
Source
Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia: Statistical Yearbook 2023 (bilingual Arabic/English, 1445H). Registry entry: sa-moh-yearbook-2023.
Notes
Composite text. The MOH-utilisation part is quoted. The insurance part is not verified: ia.gov.sa CHI policy PDFs returned 404. Lead: CHI unified policy, benefit table for dental. Also in the yearbook: 5,995,836 main dental services in MOH dental centres in 2023 (Table 4-17).
Metric definition
What public (social or national) health insurance pays for in dental care; short text, original scope noted All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | MOH provides dental care in its hospitals, dental centres and primary health care centres, used almost entirely by Saudi nationals: in 2023, 4,734,417 of 4,754,977 visits to MOH dental clinics were by Saudis. Expatriates and private-sector employees rely on mandatory employment-based health insurance regulated by the Council of Health Insurance, whose dental benefit is capped; the current schedule was not fetched this session. | other | Comparability C | Statistical Yearbook 2023 (bilingual Arabic/English, 1445H) |
Please also cite the original source above.
Same metric in other markets
Taiwan Japan South Korea Singapore Malaysia Thailand Vietnam Australia New Zealand United Arab Emirates Qatar