Foreigners married over 13,000 Saudi women last year

About 13,000 Saudi women have married non-Saudi men in the last year, of whom the highest number married Yemenis, according to a statistical report released by the Ministry of Justice.
The report states that 13,117 Saudi women married foreigners, including US, UK and Turkish citizens, an increase of 8,553 interracial marriage contracts from the previous year.
A total of 2,583 Saudi men married foreigners out of a total of 160,271 marriage contracts sealed last year.
Makkah ranked first in the list of Saudi women married to foreigners, with 7,964 marriages, followed by Riyadh, with 3,665, Madinah with 613, the Northern Borders with 23 and Hail and Baha, with 9 contracts.
According to the report, the largest number of Saudi women in this category married Yemenis, with 544 marriage contracts, while 375 married Kuwaitis, 307 married Qataris, 120 married Syrians, 112 married Emiratis, 72 married Pakistanis, 65 married Palestinians and 62 married Egyptians.
The report also stated that five Americans, three British, and three Turks married Saudi women in 2012. The Philippines was at the bottom of the list, with only one marriage contract.
The report stated that there were 337 divorce cases, which translates to only one percent of the total number of marriages. Yemenis topped the list in this category, registering the highest number of divorce cases, with 59 cases, followed by Kuwaitis, with 26 and Qataris with 20 divorce cases.