Saudi non-oil activities up 0.9% in Q2: GASTAT 

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s non-oil activities expanded 0.9 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2026, even as the Kingdom’s real gross domestic product declined by 4.7 percent during the same period, official data showed. According to the latest estimates from the General Authority for Statistics, government and non-oil activities both saw annual growth of 0.9 percent in the second quarter, while oil activities fell 24.8 percent, weighing on overall GDP expansion. The figures comes as the