Sources: Saudi Arabia
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated
Source registry for Saudi Arabia dental market data: publishers, cadence and licence status.
9 registered sources for Saudi Arabia. Licence status is recorded per publisher; figures are cited with a link, not copied wholesale.
Registry
Align Technology Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1: Q3 2026 earnings press release (filed 2026-10-28)
- Publisher
- Align Technology, Inc. (via SEC EDGAR)
- URL
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714926000077/algn-q326earningspressrele.htm
- Update cadence
- Quarterly
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- SEC says its site information may be redistributed (credit SEC requested), but page does not address copyright of company-submitted filings; the press release text is Align's own, so treated conservatively; cite by link, facts only.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- Company filing, tier 2 only (J ruling J1: factual citation, no commentary). investor.aligntech.com returns an Akamai block to automated fetch (not bypassed); the SEC copy was used.
- Facts using this source
- sa.clear_aligner_cases_annual.2026-r2
Healthcare Establishments and Workforce Statistics Publication 2023 (English)
- Publisher
- General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Saudi Arabia
- URL
- https://www.stats.gov.sa/documents/d/guest/healthcare-establishments-and-workforce-statistics-2023en-pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Reuse for any purpose incl. commercial is allowed if GASTAT is acknowledged as official source and modifications are indicated (modified data must not be presented as official); trademarks, logos and clearly identified third-party material are excluded; policy read in English, applies to the Arabic edition too.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- Methodology: 'based on data from the Ministry of Health 2023 and GASTAT's population estimates for the year 2023'.
- Facts using this source
- sa.dentists_total.2023 [series break 2024]
Healthcare Establishments and Workforce Statistics Publication 2024 (Arabic)
- Publisher
- General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Saudi Arabia
- URL
- https://www.stats.gov.sa/documents/d/guest/healthcare-establishments-and-workforce-statistics-publication-2024-ar-1-pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Reuse for any purpose incl. commercial is allowed if GASTAT is acknowledged as official source and modifications are indicated (modified data must not be presented as official); trademarks, logos and clearly identified third-party material are excluded; policy read in English, applies to the Arabic edition too.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- One-page bulletin based on MOH and SCFHS administrative records and GASTAT population estimates. Arabic only for 2024; pdftotext drops lam-alef ligatures, so quotes were re-typed with the ligatures restored.
- Facts using this source
- sa.dentists_per_100k.2024, sa.dentists_practising.2024 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_total.2024 [series break 2024]
Population Estimates Publication 2024 (English)
- Publisher
- General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Saudi Arabia
- URL
- https://www.stats.gov.sa/documents/20117/2435273/Population+Estimates+Statistics+2024+EN.pdf/9b71e303-5fd9-19cb-9913-850a9d521639
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Reuse for any purpose incl. commercial is allowed if GASTAT is acknowledged as official source and modifications are indicated (modified data must not be presented as official); trademarks, logos and clearly identified third-party material are excluded; policy read in English, applies to the Arabic edition too.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- One-page bulletin, mid-year estimate.
- Facts using this source
- sa.population.2024
Statistical Yearbook 2023 (bilingual Arabic/English, 1445H)
- Publisher
- Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia
- URL
- https://moh.gov.sa/Ministry/Statistics/book/Documents/Statistical-Yearbook-2023.pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Portal terms allow personal non-profit use with source credit and forbid reproduction/republishing; footer says All Rights Reserved; any separate Saudi open-data licence for the xlsx was not found.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- Full yearbook PDF. Workforce tables cover MOH, other government and private sectors. Education tables cover public universities only. The 2024 yearbook URL with the same pattern returned 404 on 2026-11-09.
- Facts using this source
- sa.chairside_cadcam_installed_base.2026, sa.clear_aligner_cases_annual.2026, sa.dental_3d_printer_installed_base.2026, sa.dental_clinics_total.2026, sa.dental_graduates_annual.2022, sa.dental_hygienists_total.2026, sa.dental_public_coverage.2023, sa.dental_schools_total.2023, sa.dental_technicians_total.2026, sa.dentists_per_100k.2023, sa.dentists_practising.2023 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_total.2022 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_total.2021 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_total.2020 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_total.2019 [series break 2024], sa.dso_clinic_share_pct.2026, sa.hospitals_with_dental_dept.2026, sa.implant_procedures_annual.2026, sa.ios_installed_base.2026, sa.oral_appliance_reimbursement.2026, sa.osa_prevalence_adult_pct.2026, sa.self_pay_share_of_dental_spend_pct.2026
Statistical Yearbook 2024 (bilingual Arabic/English, Excel workbook)
- Publisher
- Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia
- URL
- https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/Ministry/Statistics/book/Documents/Statistical-Yearbook-2024.xlsx
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Portal terms allow personal non-profit use with source credit and forbid reproduction/republishing; footer says All Rights Reserved; any separate Saudi open-data licence for the xlsx was not found.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- Published as XLSX only (no PDF at the 2023 URL pattern). Table 1-8 note: 'The source of workforce data has been modified as of 2024 to be the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.' Read with a stdlib xlsx reader; quotes are cell texts joined with ' | '.
- Facts using this source
- sa.dental_clinics_total.2024, sa.dental_hygienists_total.2024, sa.dental_technicians_total.2024, sa.dentists_practising.2024-r2 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_public_sector.2024 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_public_sector.2023 [series break 2024], sa.dentists_total.2024-r2 [series break 2024]
WHO Global Health Observatory API: NHWA dentists (HWF_0010/HWF_0011) and dental expenditure (ORALHEALTH_DENTALHEALTHCARE_EXP_TOTAL), Saudi Arabia
- Publisher
- World Health Organization
- URL
- https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/ORALHEALTH_DENTALHEALTHCARE_EXP_TOTAL?$filter=SpatialDim%20eq%20'SAU'
- Update cadence
- Irregular
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- WHO site-wide terms read; no GHO-specific data licence found on pages fetched, so non-commercial and permission-for-substantial-reproduction terms applied conservatively; cite by link and credit WHO with URL. A dataset-level licence (e.g. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO) was not verified.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- Modelled WHO estimate for dental spend. The NHWA dentist series (HWF_0011) matches the MOH yearbook totals for 2019-2023.
- Facts using this source
- sa.dental_spend_total_usd.2019
World Bank WDI API: GDP per capita (current US$), NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, Saudi Arabia
- Publisher
- World Bank
- URL
- https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/SAU/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?format=json&date=2022:2025
- Update cadence
- Annual (WDI updates)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Free reuse incl. commercial under CC BY 4.0 with attribution in the form 'The World Bank: Dataset name: Data source'; sub-licensees must carry the same attribution; applies unless indicated otherwise in the indicator metadata.
- Phase
- 2
- Notes
- International compilation; API last updated 2026-10-08.
- Facts using this source
- sa.gdp_per_capita_usd.2025, sa.gdp_per_capita_usd.2024
World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL)
- Publisher
- World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others)
- URL
- https://api.worldbank.org/v2/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json
- Update cadence
- Annual (last updated 2026-10-08 when fetched)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Free reuse incl. commercial under CC BY 4.0 with attribution in the form 'The World Bank: Dataset name: Data source'; sub-licensees must carry the same attribution; applies unless indicated otherwise in the indicator metadata. Underlying sources (UN WPP, national offices, Eurostat) are listed in the indicator metadata; check for source-specific terms.
- Notes
- Cross-country per-capita denominator (DECISIONS L5). No series for Taiwan.
- Facts using this source
- ae.dentists_per_100k.2023-hl, au.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, jp.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, kr.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, my.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl [series break 2024], my.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl [series break 2024], nz.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, qa.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, sa.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, sg.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, th.dentists_per_100k.2023-hl, vn.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl