The industrial sector witnessed a remarkable development in Riyadh during the last eight years when the number of factories increased from (1,467) to (2,858) factories, an annual growth rate of 11,9%, making the region accounted for 44% of the total number of factories in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last year. The expansion in this sector has also led to attract more of the workforce at a rate of 12,2% to more than 331,000 workers, a greater percentage at the level of the Kingdom's regions and constituted 39,3% of the total workforce at the factories across the Kingdom for 2013. A study prepared by the Bank of the economic information in Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) has reported that industries in Riyadh region are characterized as the least expensive compared to other regions, pointing out that the percentage of invested capital is much less and constituted 11,5% of the total funding of the factories in the Kingdom last year. --More 12:33 LOCAL TIME 09:33 GMT تغريد
