Like other GCC countries, Saudi Arabia, as the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil, has benefitted from increasing oil revenues in recent years. Although Saudi Arabia has not formally established a SWF, its central bank holds a significant amount of international investments outside of traditional foreign reserves, and thus is not reflected on the previous chart. Separately, the Saudi central bank controls an estimated $320 billion in foreign assets, with “additional reserves that are not made public for national security reasons.”24 In December 2007, Saudi Arabia announced plans to establish a sovereign wealth fund likely to be the world’s largest. According to the.
