据全球石油新闻2019年12月10日迪拜报道,沙特阿拉伯周一在利雅得表示,在经历了3年创纪录的预算刺激增长以后,沙特阿拉伯计划在2022年之前缩减政府开支,由于雄心勃勃的经济改革的实施,石油收入预计届时将会下降,对其命脉产业的依赖程度也会降低。
根据其预算报告,中东最大的经济体和世界上最大的原油出口国沙特阿拉伯计划在2020年支出1.02万亿里亚尔(2720亿美元),比2019年下降2.6%。报告还称,由于沙特阿拉伯预计其经济多元化的举措将摆脱对石油的依赖并将培育新的产业并开始产生成果,2021年政府支出将进一步下降至9900亿里亚尔,2022年将降至9550亿里亚尔。
沙特阿拉伯表示,欧佩克主要是应沙特阿拉伯的要求削减原油产量,这将给沙特阿拉伯2020年的石油收入带来压力,预计2020年的石油收入将比2019年的水平下降14.8%,至5130亿里亚尔。
由于沙特政府石油收入减少,2020年的预算赤字将从2019年的4.7%扩大到6.4%。
李峻 编译自 全球石油新闻
原文如下:
Saudi Arabia plans for lower 2020 oil revenues on OPEC cuts, global trade disputes
After three years of record budgets to spur growth, Saudi Arabia said Monday it plans to scale back government spending through 2022, forecasting lower oil revenues and a lesser reliance on its lifeblood industry as its ambitious economic reforms take hold.
The Middle East's largest economy and the world's largest crude exporter plans to spend Riyal 1.02 trillion (US$272 billion) in 2020, down 2.6% from 2019, according to its budget statement. Government expenditures will fall further to Riyal 990 billion in 2021 and Riyal 955 billion in 2022, it added, as the kingdom expects its initiatives to diversify its economy away from oil and foster new industries to begin to bear fruit.
Crude oil production cuts implemented by OPEC, largely at the behest of Saudi Arabia, will weigh on 2020 revenues, which are expected to fall 14.8% from 2019 levels to Riyal 513 billion, the kingdom said.
The budget deficit will widen to 6.4% in 2020 from 4.7% in 2019 as the government earns less from oil.