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What are the key digital statistics for Saudi Arabia and Jordan in 2026?
Saudi Arabia is saturated online: 99.0% of individuals aged 15–74 used the internet in 2025 and 71.0% bought online (GASTAT), electronic payments made up 85% of individual retail transactions in 2025 (SAMA), and mada e-commerce spending reached SAR 29.86 billion in July 2025 alone. Jordan reaches 92.5% internet penetration with 70.21% of web traffic on mobile. Google carries 95.76% of Saudi search referrals and ChatGPT 75.78% of its AI-chatbot share (StatCounter, August 2026), so being found and being quoted are the two discovery channels that matter, while web performance drives conversion: a 0.1-second speed gain can lift retail conversions 8.4%.
- Saudi Arabia: 99.0% internet use (15–74), 85% of individual retail payments electronic in 2025 (GASTAT, SAMA).
- Jordan: 92.5% internet penetration, 97.6% of mobile connections broadband, 70.21% of traffic on mobile (DataReportal, StatCounter).
- Web speed is revenue: the probability of a mobile visitor bouncing rises 123% as load time goes from 1 to 10 seconds (Think with Google, 2018).
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Internet & mobile
of individuals aged 15–74 in Saudi Arabia used the internet in 2025
Source: GASTAT, ICT Access and Usage by Households and Individuals 2025
of Saudi individuals aged 15–74 use a mobile phone to access the internet (2025)
Source: GASTAT, ICT Access and Usage by Households and Individuals 2025
of Saudi individuals aged 15–74 purchased goods or services online in 2025
Source: GASTAT, ICT Access and Usage by Households and Individuals 2025
internet users in Saudi Arabia in October 2025, 99.0% of a 34.7 million population
Source: DataReportal, Digital 2026 Saudi Arabia (read 10 September 2026)
of Saudi citizens are under 35, per GASTAT as of August 2025
Source: GASTAT figure as reported by Arab News, 24 September 2025
of Jordan’s 10.1 million cellular connections are broadband (3G, 4G or 5G), late 2025
Source: DataReportal, Digital 2026 Jordan (read 10 September 2026)
social media user identities in Saudi Arabia in October 2025, 111% of the population
Identities exceed people because one person can hold several accounts; the figure is not a count of users.
Source: DataReportal, Digital 2026 Saudi Arabia (read 10 September 2026)
of web traffic in Jordan comes from mobile; desktop still carries 29.33% (August 2026)
Source: StatCounter Global Stats, desktop vs mobile vs tablet, Jordan
E-commerce & payments
of Saudi e-commerce spending went through mada cards in July 2025, up 79.45% year on year, across 149.74 million online transactions
The series covers mada purchases on websites, in-app checkouts and e-wallets; international card schemes are excluded.
Source: SAMA data as reported by Arab News, 24 September 2025
of retail payment transactions by individuals in Saudi Arabia were electronic in 2025, up from 79% in 2024 and 70% in 2023; about 14.6 billion e-payment transactions ran through the national systems in 2025
payment companies were on the SAMA payments register on 10 September 2026: 14 Electronic Money Institutions and 19 Payment Institutions
Each row shows the legal name, activity type, unified number and licence expiry date.
Source: Saudi Central Bank, licensed payment service providers
are on Apple's list of countries that support Apple Pay (Middle East section); Iraq is not
Source: Apple Support, countries and regions that support Apple Pay, updated 9 September 2026
Search, AI & discovery
of search-engine referrals in Saudi Arabia come from Google; Bing holds 2.82% (August 2026). Jordan: Google 96.56%, Bing 2.36%. Iraq: Google 99.67%, Bing 0.18%
StatCounter counts clicks through to the sites in its network, not searches typed.
Source: StatCounter Global Stats, search engine market share, August 2026
of AI-chatbot share in Saudi Arabia is ChatGPT, with Google Gemini at 15.26%, Copilot 3.42%, Perplexity 2.93% and Claude 2.61% (August 2026). Jordan: ChatGPT 76.09%. Iraq: ChatGPT 73.83%
Being quotable by ChatGPT and Gemini is a distinct discovery channel from blue-link SEO in all three markets.
Source: StatCounter Global Stats, AI chatbot market share, August 2026
are a confirmed Google ranking signal — speed and stability affect rank
Source: Google Search Central
Web performance & conversion
retail conversion lift from a 0.1s improvement in mobile site speed
Source: Deloitte & Google, “Milliseconds Make Millions” 2020
rise in the probability of a mobile visitor bouncing as page load time goes from 1 second to 10 seconds
The older "53% abandon after 3 seconds" and "+32% bounce from 1s to 3s" figures were dropped on 11 September 2026: the thinkwithgoogle.com page they cited now redirects to a generic hub and no live Google page carries them.
Source: Think with Google, New Industry Benchmarks for Mobile Page Speed, 20 February 2018
is all it takes for a visitor to form a first impression of your website
Source: Behaviour & Information Technology (Lindgaard et al.)
Ijjad delivery benchmarks
conversion rate after a Jeddah e-commerce rebuild
qualified leads after a Riyadh SME website redesign
PageSpeed score before and after a Riyadh SME website redesign, in an anonymized first-party case
Replaced on 11 September 2026 a "94+ on the most recent Saudi government portal" entry that had no proof-ledger row; per-URL scores are published only with a date and test conditions.
Source: Ijjad project data (anonymized under NDA; proof ledger RIYADH-CASE-01)
digital products shipped across Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the GCC since 2020
Source: Ijjad project data
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How current is this data?
This page is reviewed and updated as new official figures are released. It was last updated on 2026-09-11. Regional figures come from GASTAT, SAMA, DataReportal; global web-performance figures come from Google, Deloitte, published research; and the Ijjad delivery benchmarks are our own anonymized project data.
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