Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia operates a universal healthcare system in which around 40% of hospitals and 47% of its non-urgent care centres are private. Almost everyone in the country has access to essential medicines and proper sanitation. The government has in recent years focused on building the capacity of the health system, so that more doctors are locally trained and more in-patient surgery can be provided in the country than was the case in previous years.

Imported pharmaceuticals constitute around 85% of the Saudi market. Tariffs have been abolished some time after 2003.