​​​​​​​The International Mathematics Olympiad is known internationally by the symbol (IMO), and it is an international competition held annually in pre-candidate countries during July of each year. The competition includes a high level of difficulty test consisting of six questions spread over two days, for which (42 marks) are allocated ), Each day only three questions are given over four and a half hours, and pre-university students (i.e. under the age of twenty years) participate in them, and each country participates with a team consisting of 6 students as a maximum. The first Olympiad was held in 1959 in Romania, with the participation of only 7 countries, where a Romanian professor organized a mathematics competition for students of the final year of secondary education, in which seven countries from the socialist camp participated, namely: Czechoslovakia, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Poland, and in 1961, Yugoslavia joined it to become the number of eight countries that continued to participate annually in this Olympiad and embrace it alternately until 1963, and in 1964 Mongolia joined it, and Vietnam followed suit in 1974 Then Turkey, and so the countries continued to participate in succession until the number of participating countries reached nearly 106, South Africa in 2015.

Algeria's participation was the first Arab participation in 1977, followed by Tunisia in 1981, then Kuwait in 1982, Morocco in 1983, and Bahrain in 1990, and the first participation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Japanese Olympiad in 2003 was with two scientific observers, without the participation of students, as it states. This is the Olympic list, and in the 2004 Greek Olympiad, four students participated, and the UAE participated for the first time in the Vietnam Olympiad in 2007 as an observer, and in the 2008 Spanish Olympiad with students, and the Kingdom participated in 2003.​

The following are the results of the Kingdom's participation in this competition:

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