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Dentists (practising): Saudi Arabia, 2024

Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of

Saudi Arabia had 33,751 employed dentists in 2024, according to Ministry of Health Statistical Yearbook 2024. Basis: employed (all sectors).

Comparability B Confidence high

Series break: this series has a documented break (2024). A change across it reflects a change in source or definition, not growth. See Series break below.

Cite this

Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. (2026). Dentists (practising): Saudi Arabia, as of 2024-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/sa/dentists-practising/2024/

Permanent URL: https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/sa/dentists-practising/2024/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Record

Value
33,751 persons
Scope qualifier
all sectors
Unit
persons
As of
Accessed
Revision
2
Confidence
high
Method
reported
Basis
employed
Scope
employed: all sectors
Comparability
Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
Status
Latest record for this market and metric; 1 earlier revision is kept below

Source quote

Total | Dentists | 2017G 15699 35.3 | 2018G 16752 38.2 | 2019G 18811 40.4 | 2020G 19622 49.6 | 2021G 22739 53.3 | 2022G 23897 53.5 | 2023G 25970 53.8 | 2024G 33751 58.066427661402621

Locator: MOH Statistical Yearbook 2024 (xlsx), sheet 2-17 'Health Manpower in KSA Health Sectors in the Last Five Years', sector 'Total', row 'Dentists' (No, Saudi%)

Local definition

Dentists working in health facilities (all sectors); SCFHS-sourced from 2024

Source

Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia: Statistical Yearbook 2024 (bilingual Arabic/English, Excel workbook). Registry entry: sa-moh-yearbook-2024.

Notes

SERIES BREAK 2024: MOH yearbook 2024 Table 1-8 states 'The source of workforce data has been modified as of 2024 to be the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.' Up to 2023 the counts came from MOH-collected sector returns. The +30% jump in dentists (25,970 to 33,751) appears in every sector (MOH 7,056 to 9,331; other government 2,238 to 4,184; private 16,676 to 20,236), and private allied health more than doubled (38,114 to 87,306), consistent with a source change rather than real growth. Do not compute 2023-24 growth across the break. Comparability lowered from A to B because of the break.

Metric definition

Dentists reported as practising / on the resident register (narrower than registered) All markets for this metric.

Revisions

Earlier revisions of this figure stay on record for citation. They are never deleted.

Revision 1 (superseded)

Value
33,751 persons
Scope qualifier
all sectors
Unit
persons
As of
Accessed
Revision
1
Confidence
high
Method
reported
Basis
employed
Scope
employed: all sectors
Comparability
Comparability A A: same definition as the metric

وبلغ إجمالي عدد أطباء الأسنان 33,751 طبيباً، وكان عدد أطباء الأسنان السعوديين 19,598 طبيباً

English: The total number of dentists reached 33,751, of whom 19,598 were Saudi dentists.

Locator: Healthcare Establishments and Workforce Statistics 2024 (AR), p.1

Source: Healthcare Establishments and Workforce Statistics Publication 2024 (Arabic). Registry entry: sa-gastat-hcw-2024.

Local definition: Dentists working in health facilities across all sectors

Notes: Same figure as dentists_total. Saudi statistics count the working workforce, not licence holders; no SCFHS registered-total was found.

Series break

Series break at 2024 (between 2023 and 2024): MOH yearbook 2024 Table 1-8: workforce data source changed from MOH records to the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties from 2024; levels before and after 2024 are not strictly comparable

History

Dentists (practising) in Saudi Arabia: current records by yearDentists (practising) in Saudi Arabia: current records by year. persons; same basis only (employed); a dashed line crosses a series break. Sources: Ministry of Health Statistical Yearbook 2023; Ministry of Health Statistical Yearbook 2024. Dental Market Radar.Dentists (practising) in Saudi Arabia: current records by yearpersons; same basis only (employed); a dashed line crosses a series break2023: 25,97025,9702024: 33,75133,75120232024Sources: Ministry of Health Statistical Yearbook 2023; Ministry of Health Statistical Yearbook2024. Dental Market Radar.
Current records on the same basis (employed (all sectors)). A dashed line crosses a documented series break. The table below lists every record.
Current records for Dentists (practising), Saudi Arabia, newest first
YearValueBasisAs ofComparabilitySourceSeries break
202433,751 personsemployed (all sectors)Comparability BStatistical Yearbook 2024 (bilingual Arabic/English, Excel workbook)Series break starts here
202325,970 personsemployed (all sectors)Comparability AStatistical Yearbook 2023 (bilingual Arabic/English, 1445H)

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