It's sad that the Saudi Gov. has so much money and at the same time so many young people. Too bad these idiots don't care about the developing world because they could do alot of good work with their oil profits. Starting farming and educational programs in Africa, like the U.S. peace corp. It would be a rewarding experience for the young Arabs. To bad they only donate to suicide bombers and hate mosque in the ME, while the U.S and Euro look the other way. wtf , America you need to recognize your true enemy

Saudi Arabia is a study of the future for the US, or any developed country, that fails to control its immigration, legal or illegal.

Flooding your labor markets with cheap, desperate, unskilled labor is a boon to a few, but impoverishes all in the long run.

Enough poor and disillusioned nationals who worked for an education that find they have wasted their time eventually find 'gainful employment' disrupting politcal and social systems.

The saudis have more hard currency than anyone else on earth except for the central bankers who print it. What did they decide to do with that liquidity? Spend it on their exponentially growing royalty.

There's a scene in the movie Syriana when Matt Damon is talking to the saudi prince in the desert and he says something to the effect of "you guys spend your money on bullshit instead of using it to build economy, and in 100 years you're gonna be wiping your ass with your hands just like how you were 100 years ago and you're gonna be remembered for squandering the greatest natural resource ever known to man."

its true. they have so much resource but the corrupt and unsophisticated stone age people they are, they won't use it to create a bit of prosperity for their everyman.

they are so lucky the US supports their house of cards.

FP editor, come on you need to make sure that the graphics and the content match

Anyone who's ever had to the misfortune to hire Saudis knows they're some of the laziest, most self-entitled people on the planet. This is why not even Saudi employers want to hire them; they prefer foreigners. Saudi "university degrees" are also a joke, and their educational system is overburdened with Islamist hatred and religious indoctrination rather than the rounded universalist education found on western (and increasingly East Asian) campuses.

The high youth unemployment rate is also made worse by Islamist social mores that encourage people to have 5-6 children, an idiotic religious policy that's already killing Pakistan and Bangladesh. Pretty soon Saudi, a desert kingdom, will be over-full of Islamist fanatics and penniless when the world's reliance on oil subsides in 30-40 years.

i loved the article thank you ELLEN :)

Youth unemployment is an issue in Saudi Arabia but that is not because of a lack of jobs but because the very pampered young do not want them at the wages the private sector pays. That's very different to the circumstances in Egypt and Tunisia You are singing the wrong tune here.

It also works very well for the Saudi Royal family that so many Saudi's work for the government as this extends their patronage still further so you have not got the same sort of independent middle class you see in some other Arab states. If you look at recent events you can see how the Saudi royal family is using the power of patronage with the announcement of the Saudi plan to spend $400bn on infrastructure, education and jobs creation.

Will the Saudi Royal family have to face the music anytime soon? I do not think so. In fact they are playing too good a game.

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The nation heavily depends upon foreign workers for from menial jobs, construction and also the service sector to operate requiring advanced skills like technology and hospital jobs. Employers often say Saudis lack adequate training and skills, or demand excessive salaries. The largest employer of Saudis may be the government, while foreigners dominate private sector jobs at many levels.

The nation's people in this country keeps growing a couple of.4 % annually, using the figure significantly higher for native Saudis. The populace is heavily weighted about the young side -- over fifty percent the populace is under Two decades old and 40 % aged 15 or much younger.

That places great pressure about the government to produce long-term jobs because of its citizens, and Riyadh continues to be pushing strongly a "Saudi-isation" policy to put native Saudis in jobs that foreigners hold.

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