据油价网11月13日利雅得报道，沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼日前表示，油价暴跌将使沙特阿拉伯今年的石油出口收入减少275亿美元。萨勒曼承认，目前的石油收入已不足以支付沙特阿拉伯王国的工资账单。
萨勒曼王储在沙特官方通讯社发表的讲话中表示，沙特阿拉伯去年曾预计2020年国家收入将达到2220亿美元(8330亿沙特里亚尔)，其中1370亿美元(5130亿里亚尔)将来自石油出口。
然而，萨勒曼表示，在油价暴跌之后，沙特阿拉伯的石油出口收入实际上已下降到了1090亿美元(4100亿里亚尔)。
今年4月份，沙特阿拉伯曾通过向市场投放大量原油，促成了油价暴跌，使世界最大的石油出口国损失了275亿美元的石油收入。
萨尔曼在讲话中表示，单靠这些石油收入已不足以支付今年预算估计的5040亿里亚尔的工资账单，更不用说向其它项目提供资金的困难，其中包括1730亿里亚尔的资本支出和690亿里亚尔的社会保障福利,以及估计大约1400亿里亚尔的作业和维护账单以及其它账单，这意味着经济衰退和损失数以百万计的工作岗位。
油价暴跌迫使沙特阿拉伯采取了一些非常不受欢迎的措施，比如将增值税提高两倍，减少对贫困家庭的支出，以及停止向政府工作人员发放生活补贴。
惠誉评级公司不久前对沙特阿拉伯的长期外币发行人违约评级(IDR)从“稳定”调低到了“负面”。
李峻 编译自 油价网
原文如下：
Oil Price Crash Costs Saudi Arabia $27.5 Billion In Revenue In 2020
The oil price collapse is depriving Saudi Arabia of US$27.5 billion in oil revenues this year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Friday, admitting that the current oil income is not enough to cover the Kingdom’s salaries bill.
Saudi Arabia had projected last year that this year’s revenues for the state would be US$222 billion (833 billion Saudi riyals), of which US$137 billion (513 billion riyals) would come from oil, the crown prince said in a speech carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
However, after the collapse in oil prices, Saudi Arabia’s oil revenues actually dropped to US$109 billion (410 billion riyals), Mohammed bin Salman said.
Thus, the price crash—which Saudi Arabia itself helped to create by flooding the market with oil in April—cost the world’s top oil exporter just over US$27.5 billion in oil revenues this year.
“These revenues alone are insufficient to cover even the salaries bill estimated at 504 billion riyals in this year’s budget, not to mention the difficulty of financing other items which include capital spending by 173 billion riyals and social security benefits by 69 billion riyals as well as operation and maintenance bill estimated at 140 billion riyals and others, which means an economic recession and millions of jobs lost,” Mohammed bin Salman said in his speech.
The collapse in oil prices has forced the Kingdom to take some very unpopular measures such as tripling the value-added tax (VAT), reducing payouts to poorer households, and discontinuing cost-of-living allowances for state workers.
Earlier this week, Fitch Ratings revised down its the outlook on Saudi Arabia’s long-term foreign-currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’,