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| group            = Indians in Saudi Arabia
| population      = '''4,100,000'''<ref name="huffingtonpost"/><ref name="TOI"/><br />'''~13.22% of Saudi Arabia's population''' (2017)
| genealogy        =
| regions          = [[Riyadh]], [[Jeddah]], [[Dammam]], [[Jubail]], [[Jizan]]
| languages        = [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]{{•}}[[Tulu language|Tulu]]{{•}}[[Urdu language|Urdu]]{{•}}[[Hindi language|Hindi]]{{•}}[[Marathi language|Marathi]]{{•}}[[Telugu language|Telugu]]{{•}}[[Kannada language|Kannada]]{{•}}[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
| religions        = Majority:<br>[[Islam]]<br>Minority:<br>[[Hinduism]]{{•}}[[Sikhism]]{{•}}[[Jainism]]{{•}}[[Zoroastrianism]]{{•}}[[Buddhism]]{{•}}[[Christianity]]{{•}}[[Judaism]]{{•}}[[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]]
| related_groups  = [[Indian diaspora]]
| footnotes        =
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}}
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'''Indians in Saudi Arabia''' are the largest community of [[Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia|expatriates in Saudi Arabia]]. India and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to manage and organize the recruitment of domestic workers in January 2014. Between then and April 2016, 500,000 Indians moved to Saudi Arabia for employment. The agreement includes a provision which stipulates that sponsors must pay a guarantee of US $2,500 for each Indian worker they recruit.<ref name="ArabNews1">{{cite web|title=500K Indian workers arrive in 16 months|url=http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/742886|website=Arab News|access-date=28 April 2016}}</ref>
==Demographics==
The following table shows the estimated population of Indians in Saudi Arabia since 1975.
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Population
|-
|1975
|34,500<ref name="indiandiaspora">{{cite web|title=Report of the High Level Committee on the Indian Diaspo|url=http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter3.pdf|website=indiandiaspora.nic.in|access-date=28 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175534/http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter3.pdf|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|1979
|100,000<ref name="indiandiaspora"/>
|-
|1983
|270,000<ref name="indiandiaspora"/>
|-
|1987
|380,000<ref name="indiandiaspora"/>
|-
|1991
|351,000<ref name="indiandiaspora"/>
|-
|1999
|700,000<ref name="indiandiaspora"/>
|-
|2000
|1,000,000<ref name="indiandiaspora"/>
|-
|2004
|1,300,000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/esa/population/meetings/EGM_Ittmig_Arab/P02_Kapiszewski.pdf |title=Arab versus Asian migrant workers in the GCC countries |format=PDF|page=10 }}</ref>
|-
|2015
|3,000,000<ref name="ArabNews1"/><ref name="ndtv2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-modis-saudi-agenda-big-on-oil-and-indian-workers-1309830|title=PM Modi's Saudi Agenda Big On Oil And Indian Workers|access-date=2016-04-02|publisher=NDTV}}</ref>
|-
|2017
|4,100,000<ref name="huffingtonpost">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/06/21/how-saudi-arabias-family-tax-is-forcing-indians-to-return-hom_a_22494498/|title=How Saudi Arabia's 'Family Tax' Is Forcing Indians To Return Home|publisher=The Huffington Post|access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="TOI">{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/middle-east-news/indians-brace-for-saudi-family-tax/articleshow/59243550.cms|title=Indians brace for Saudi ‘family tax’|publisher=Times of India|access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref>
|}
==Religion==
Slightly less than one-third of the Indians in Saudi Arabia are Muslims, mainly from [[Kerala]].<ref>[[Ian Talbot]], ''A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas'', Yale University Press, 2016, chapter 3</ref>
Gada nagri established for Indians Workers
Gada, are a Muslim community or caste found in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana
==Education==
Indian curriculum schools in Saudi Arabia include:
* [[International Indian School, Dammam]]
* [[International Indian School Jeddah]]
* [[International Indian School, Al-Jubail]]
* [[International Indian School, Riyadh]]
* [[New Middle East International School, Riyadh|New Middle East International School]], Riyadh
*International Indian Public School, Riyadh
* [[Al-Yasmin International School]] , [[Riyadh]]
* [[Talal International School]] , [[Jeddah]]
==Notable Indian Saudi Arabians==
*[[Abdulbasit Hindi]], Saudi Arabian footballer of distant Indian origin
==See also==
* [[India – Saudi Arabia relations]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Immigration to Saudi Arabia}}
{{Demographics of Saudi Arabia}}
{{NRI-PIO}}
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Saudi Arabia]]
[[Category:Indian diaspora by country|Saudi Arabia]]
[[Category:Saudi Arabian people of Indian descent| ]]
[[Category:India–Saudi Arabia relations]]
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