A recently released Gallup poll, conducted shortly after the announcement of Vision 2030, found that nearly half of adults (48%) rate their lives well enough to be considered “thriving,” up significantly from 35% a year earlier. Such a large shift in thriving rates in a single year “is rare in any country,” Gallup said.
Via gallup.com
However, there is a sharp divide between how Saudis view their situation compared with expats, and “perceptions across the kingdom on jobs and economic conditions do not mirror the improvements in Saudi residents’ overall life evaluations,” Gallup said.
Public polling is uncommon in Saudi Arabia, so Gallup’s measurement on how Saudis view their own lives and the Kingdom’s economy sheds a rare light on public perceptions in the Kingdom.
“Despite a series of security and economic challenges facing Saudi Arabia, residents of the country — and Saudi nationals in particular — now express a heightened sense of optimism about their lives,” Gallup wrote. “While excitement and public discourse about the Vision 2030 unveiling may have affected how the kingdom’s residents, especially nationals, rate their current and future lives, perceptions of the national economy and local job market highlight deteriorating conditions in the shorter term. Delivering on the heightened hopes that the new national vision seems to have triggered will be critical for the country’s future success and well-being.”
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