沙特计划摆脱对石油依赖举措小见成效

据世界石油12月31日迪拜报道，沙特阿拉伯经济在第三季度收缩了0.5%，这是广泛预期的收缩，尽管该国摆脱对原油依赖的目标开始在非石油部门的稳定增长中得到了回报。

沙特阿拉伯统计总局周二公布的数据显示，石油行业的萎缩导致整体经济收缩6.4%。根据政府的最新估计，2019年的整体经济增长预计将加速至0.4%，明年将攀升至2.3%。

今年第三季度，沙特非石油经济部门增长4.3%，而2018年同期增长约2%，这表明沙特王储穆罕默德•本•萨勒曼正努力推动沙特经济从原油经济（沙特是全球最大的石油出口国）转向多元化。

今年早些时候，沙特财政大臣穆罕默德•贾达安称，随着私营部门增长加快，企业开始发挥主导作用，政府计划逐步减少支出。

裘寅 编译自 世界石油

原文如下：

Saudi plan to wean off oil sees success even as economy stalls

Saudi Arabia’s economy shrank 0.5% in the third quarter, a contraction that was broadly expected even as the kingdom’s goal of weaning itself off crude began to pay off with solid growth in non-oil sectors.

The overall economy was weighed down by shrinkage of 6.4% in the country’s oil sector, according to data released Tuesday by the General Authority for Statistics. Overall growth for 2019 is expected to accelerate to a modest 0.4%, according to the latest government estimates, before climbing to 2.3% next year.

Non-oil sectors of the economy grew 4.3% in the third quarter compared to about 2% for the same period of 2018, a sign of Crown Prince’s Mohammed bin Salman’s initiative to diversify the world’s top oil exporter’s economy from crude.

Earlier this year, Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said the government plans to gradually reduce spending as private-sector growth picks up and businesses take the lead.