Health & life sciences
Health technology built to scale, and a health system ready to adopt it
Saudi Arabia is reshaping its health system around prevention, digital care and a larger role for private providers. For Nordic health-tech and life-science companies, that creates room to pilot, prove and expand. For Saudi partners, it is a chance to bring proven solutions into the system and to build the value locally.
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The market in numbers
SAR 214 billion
(about $57 billion), roughly 17% of the state budget, allocated to health in 2024.
$102 billion
total health market expected by 2035, with private spending forecast to roughly double from about $16 billion in 2022 to about $33 billion.
290 hospitals
and 2,300 primary health centres are in the privatisation programme, alongside more than 20 health clusters each serving about a million people, and over 100 public-private projects worth about $12.8 billion in private investment over five years.
Partnership opportunities
A health system that is reorganising itself is looking for solutions that work in practice, built with partners who know the local setting. Public-sector pilots are often where that begins, and we have helped complex health-tech solutions reach that stage.
Where the synergies are
Knowledge and capability are being built on both sides. Saudi Arabia is investing in local manufacturing and local capability, and it wants partners who will build alongside it. In the right partnership that can mean co-development, local production or a joint venture that serves both markets.
Nordic strengths
Clinical evidence, regulatory experience and technology.
Saudi strengths
Scale, funding and the chance to reach millions of patients.
What we do in this field
- A briefing on where your solution fits in the Saudi health system, and who decides.
- Introductions to health holding companies, providers, investors and public-sector buyers.
- Support through the pilot and the partnership that follows.