HRDF: Manufacturing Industries Record Highest Growth at 125%
In support of the Human Resources Development Fund’s role in building sustainable human capabilities and enabling them in high-value and promising sectors, and in maximizing its impact on the labor market, the number of establishments benefiting from HRDF support in the manufacturing industries sector increased by 125%, making it the highest growth rate among the sectors supported by the Fund during the first half of 2025.
The financial and insurance activities sector ranked second among HRDF-supported sectors with a growth rate of 124%. Other key and promising sectors in the labor market also recorded various growth rates, including information and communications, health and social work, real estate activities, professional, scientific, and technical activities, arts and entertainment, and education.
HRDF’s efforts during the first half of 2025 contributed to a 36% growth in the number of establishments benefiting from its services, surpassing 136,000 establishments, with medium, small, and micro enterprises accounting for 94% of this figure.
These results reflect HRDF’s strategic role in empowering the Saudi labor market and steering it toward high-value and promising sectors. They also highlight HRDF’s ongoing efforts to build sustainable national human capabilities that ensure the Kingdom’s long-term economic growth and create national generations capable of innovation and keeping pace with future jobs.
They further underscore HRDF’s pivotal role in supporting the development and sustainability of the Saudi economy and supplying new and promising economic sectors with qualified national cadres, thereby accelerating economic diversification and supporting the implementation of mega projects and development and economic programs under Vision 2030 and its goals for a prosperous and sustainable economic future.
