industrial activities with the Kingdom's share in the industrial projects amounts to 14 projects in which the Australian partner contributes with a share estimated at around 20% out of the total investments size of those projects while the Saudi side's share amounts to 74% in addition to the contribution of partners from other countries with a total share of 5.6%. The number of joint non-industrial projects amounted to 25 projects between the two countries whereas Australia's share in the capital of those projects amounts to 41.1% and the Saudi side's share totals 58.6% while partners from other countries paid 0.33% of the total investment. The size of trade exchange between the two countries in 2013 reached 2,459 million Australian dollar with Australian exports to the Kingdom amounting to 2,190 million Australian dollar and Saudi exports to Australia worth 269 million Australian dollar. As part of its endeavor to build humanitarian and cultural bridges between the two countries, the office of the Cultural Attache of the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Australia was following up the academic affairs of Saudi students on scholarships in Australia whose number increasingly doubled from less than 200 students in 2005 to more than 8000 in the current time. --More 14:01 LOCAL TIME 11:01 GMT تغريد
