Demographics of the United Arab Emirates

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This article contains demographic features of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including population density, vital statistics, immigration and emigration data, ethnicity, education levels, religions practiced, and languages spoken within the UAE.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1950	70,000	—
1960	90,000	+28.6%
1970	232,000	+157.8%
1980	1,016,000	+337.9%
1990	1,809,000	+78.1%
2000	3,033,000	+67.7%
2010	7,512,000	+147.7%
Source: UN^[1]^:162

Population growth in the United Arab Emirates is among the highest in world at a current 2.47% for the year of 2016. ^[2] Immigration is the heaviest factor contributing to this growth. Expatriate workers in the UAE made up 90% of the country's workforce in 2013 and accounted for 7.8 million individuals out of a population of 9.2 million people .^[3] UAE's census data noted a seven-fold increase in its population between 1975 and 2005.

Emirate	census 1975	census 1985	census 1995	census 2005	est. 2010
Abu Dhabi	211,812	566,036	942,463	1,399,484
Dubai	183,187	370,788	689,420	1,321,453
Sharjah	78,790	228,317	402,792	793,573
Ajman	16,690	54,546	121,491	206,997
Umm Al-Quwain	6,908	19,285	35,361	49,159
Ras Al-Khaimah	43,845	96,578	143,334	210,063
Fujairah	16,655	43,753	76,180	125,698
Total	557,887	1,379,303	2,411,041	4,106,427	7,512,000 (UN)^[1] 8,190,000 (NBS)^[4]

Population Pyramid Data^[5]

UAE Census (05/12/2005)

Age group	Male	Female	Total	%
Total	2 806 141	1 300 286	4 106 427	100
0-4	145 601	136 538	282 139	6.87
5-9	139 929	129 453	269 382	6.56
10-14	130 778	118 279	249 057	6.07
15-19	121 388	110 838	232 226	5.66
20-24	272 036	161 530	433 566	10.56
25-29	483 657	178 137	661 794	16.12
30-34	489 879	150 482	640 361	15.59
35-39	386 762	113 844	500 606	12.19
40-44	262 718	78 543	341 261	8.31
45-49	174 459	51 311	225 770	5.50
50-54	107 339	31 539	138 878	3.38
55-59	51 303	15 804	67 107	1.63
60-64	18 820	8 527	27 347	0.67
65-69	9 172	5 285	14 457	0.35
70-74	5 391	4 013	9 404	0.23
75-79	2 440	1 837	4 277	0.10
80-84	1 537	1 439	2 976	0.07
85+	1 250	1 165	2 415	0.06
unknown	1 682	1 722	3 404	0.08

Age group	Male	Female	Total	Percent
0-14	416 308	384 270	800 578	19.50
15-64	2 366 679	898 833	3 265 512	79.52
65+	21 472	15 461	36 933	0.90

Vital Statistics

UN Prospects

Period	Live births per year	Deaths per year	Natural change per year	CBR	CDR	NC	TFR	IMR
1950-1955	4 000	2 000	2 000	49.4	20.8	28.6	6.97	175
1955-1960	4 000	2 000	3 000	49.3	18.0	31.3	6.97	156
1960-1965	5 000	2 000	4 000	46.3	13.2	33.2	6.87	120
1965-1970	8 000	2 000	6 000	41.2	8.7	32.5	6.77	77
1970-1975	12 000	2 000	10 000	32.6	6.4	26.2	6.36	51
1975-1980	23 000	4 000	19 000	29.1	4.6	24.5	5.66	36
1980-1985	36 000	4 000	32 000	30.5	3.7	26.8	5.23	25
1985-1990	45 000	5 000	40 000	28.4	3.1	25.4	4.83	17
1990-1995	48 000	5 000	42 000	23.0	2.5	20.4	3.88	12
1995-2000	49 000	6 000	43 000	18.1	2.1	16.0	2.97	10
2000-2005	57 000	6 000	51 000	16.2	1.7	14.4	2.38	8
2005-2010	81 000	8 000	73 000	14.0	1.4	12.6	1.86	7
CBR = crude birth rate (per 1000); CDR = crude death rate (per 1000); NC = natural change (per 1000); IMR = infant mortality rate per 1000 births; TFR = total fertility rate (number of children per woman)

Source: United National World Population Prospects^[1]

Births and Deaths ^[6]

Year	Live births	Deaths	Natural increase
2009	76 366	7 789	68 577
2010	79 625	7 414	72 211
2011	83 950	7 350	76 600

Ethnicity of UAE Immigrants

The UAE National Bureau of Statistics does not publish demographic data in relation to any nationality. The following figures listed in the table below are estimates provided by each country's embassy. ^[7]

NATIONALS OF	POPULATION	% OF TOTAL POPULATION	YEAR OF DATA
India	2,600,000	27,15%	2014
Pakistan	1,200,000	12,53%	2014
UAE	1,084,764	11,32%	2015
Bangladesh	700,000	7,31%	2013
Philippines	525,530	5,49%	2014
Iran*	400,000 – 500,000	4,18% – 5,22%	N/A
Egypt*	400,000	4,18%	2014
Nepal	300,000	3,13%	2014
Sri Lanka	300,000	3,13%	2015
Syria	>250,000^[8]	~2,6%	2016
China	200,000	2,09%	2015
Jordan	200,000	2,09%	2015
Afghanistan	150,000	1,57%	<2011
Palestine	150,000	1,57%	2009
United Kingdom	120,000	1,25%	2015
South Africa	100,000	1,04%	2014
Lebanon*	100,000	1,04%	2015
Ethiopia	90,000	0,94%	2014
Yemen	90,000	0,94%	2013
Indonesia	85,000	0,89%	2015
Sudan	75,000	0,78%	2013
Saudi Arabia	70,000	0,73%	2014
Somalia	70,000	0,73%	2015
Iraq	52,000	0,54%	2014
United States	50,000	0,52%	2015
Canada	40,000	0,42%	2014
Kenya	40,000	0,42%	2014
France	25,000	0,26%	2015
Australia	16,000	0,17%	2015
Germany	12,000	0,12%	2013
Spain	12,000	0,11%	2015
Algeria	10,000	0,10%	2014
Italy	10,000	0,10%	2014
South Korea	10,000	0,10%	2014
Thailand	10,000	0,10%	2014
Turkey	10,000	0,10%	2014
Azerbaijan	7,000	0,07%	2015
Ireland	7,000	0,07%	2015
Malaysia	6,000 – 7,000	0,06% – 0,07%	2015
Kazakhstan	5,000 – 6,000	0,05% – 0,06%	2015
Greece	5,000	0,05%	2015
Mauritania	5,000	0,05%	2015
Netherlands	5,000	0,05%	2015
Serbia	5,000	0,05%	2015
Ukraine	5,000	0,05%	2014
Sweden	4,000	0,04%	2015
Denmark	3,000 – 4,000	~0,03%	2015
Mexico	3,000 – 3,500	~0,03%	2014
Belgium	3,000	0,03%	2015
Eritrea	3,000	0,03%	2015
Japan	2,603	~0,03%	2015
Dominican Republic	2,000-3,000	0,02% – 0,03%	2015
Austria	2,500	~0,03%	2015
Belarus	2,500	~0,03%	2015
Hungary	2,500	~0,03%	2015
Switzerland	2,430	~0,03%	2013
Poland	2,348	~0,02%	2015
Singapore	>2,000	~0,02%	2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,000 – 2,000	0,01% – 0,02%	2015
Czech Republic	1,500	~0,02%	2015
Venezuela	1,200	~0,01%	2015
Norway	1,184	~0,01%	2015
Finland	1,180	~0,01%	2014
Cyprus	1,000	~0,01%	2014
Slovakia	1,000	~0,01%	2014
Senegal	700 – 800	< 0,01%	2015
Ghana	500	< 0,01%	2015
New Zealand	444	< 0,01%	2015
Taiwan	400	< 0,01%	2015
Latvia	300	< 0,01%	2014
Peru	300	< 0,01%	2015
Chile	270	< 0,01%	2014
Albania	200 – 300	< 0,01%	2015
Chad	200	< 0,01%	2015
Slovenia	100 – 150	< 0,01%	2015
Angola	100	< 0,01%	2015

*The figures for the countries marked with a “*” cannot be directly sourced to Embassy statements

Ethnic groups^[9]

Emirati nationals 11.32%
Other Arab and Iranian nationalities ~18%
South Asian nationalities ~60%
Other expatriate nationalities (includes Westerners, East Asians and Africans) ~12%

Languages

A multilingual (Arabic, English, Urdu) signboard in the UAE.

Arabic is the official and national language of the UAE. The Gulf dialect of Arabic is spoken by the Emirati people which differs in accents from other Arab/ Middle Eastern countries^[10] The Larestani language (Persian dialect) is also spoken by a number of Emiratis.^[11] Apart from Arabic, English is widely used as a second language. Other languages spoken in the UAE, due to immigration, include Malayalam, Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Cebuano, Pashto, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Baluchi (Southern Baluchi), Russian, Somali, Tagalog, Nepali, Mandarin, Telugu and Spanish.

Practiced Religions

Religions are represented in UAE as follows:^[9]

Islam (official) 76%
Christian 9%
Other 15% (primarily Hindu and Buddhist)

CIA World Factbook Demographic Statistics

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise indicated.^[12]

Age structure

0-14 years: 20.94% (male 500,928/female 678,388)
15-24 years: 13.53% (male 476,813/female 324,982)
25-54 years: 61.27% (male 2,767,886/female 863,816)
55-64 years: 3.23% (male 142,661/female 48,715)
65 years and over: 1.04% (male 38,444/female 23,184)
Note: 85% of the population consists of non-citizens (2005 est.)

Population Growth Rate

2.47% (2016 est.)

Net Migration Rate

11.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)

Sex Ratio

At birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
Under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15–24 years: 1.47 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 3.2 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 2.93 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.69 male(s)/female
Total population: 2.18 male(s)/female (2016 est.)

Life Expectancy at Birth

Total population:
77.5 years
Male: 74.8 years
Female: 80.2 years (2016 est.)

Total Fertility Rate (per woman)

1.75 children born/woman (2016 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births

Male: 12 deaths/1,000 births
Female: 8.5 deaths/1,000 births
Total: 10.3 deaths/1,000 births (2016 est.)

Citizenship

noun: Emirati(s)
adjective: Emirati

Dependency Ratio

Youth dependency ratio: 16.4%
Elderly dependency ratio: 1.3%
Total dependency ratio: 17.8%
Potential support ratio: 74.6% (2015 est.)

Literacy

Females: 95% (2016) ^[13]
Males: 95% (2016) ^[14]

References

1 2 3 World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision
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↑ "Population leaps to 8.19 million". UAE Interact. May 30, 2010. Archived from the original on February 12, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
↑ "Demographic Yearbook". UN Data. United Nations. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
↑ http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm
↑ Snoj, Jure (April 12, 2015). "UAE´s population - by nationality". bq Magazine. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
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↑ Christensen, Shane (2010). Frommer's Dubai. John Wiley & Sons. p. 174. ISBN 978-0470711781.
↑ "Lari language".
↑ The World Factbook - United Arab Emirates
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