Dear Friends,
For the first time ever, an official public figure in the UAE has revealed data related to the nationality split in the country. With the latest update on the census (2007) the total UAE population is touching 6.5 million people. This represent an increase of almost 70% against the preliminary results (3.8 million) that were published back in 2004.
It was not a secret that the Emiratis represent a small portion from the population, the previous estimations were always between 15% and 25%; the below shows that it is even lower that the estimations at 13.5% only.
Details of the nationalities as follows:
Nationality Absolute population%
Emirati 875,617 (13.5%)
Arab Expat 823,633 (12.7%)
Indian 2,367,732 (36.5%)
Pakistani 822,914 (12.7%)
Bangladesh 589,545 (9.1%)
Filipino 279,602 (4.3%)
Sri Lanka 104,623 (1.6%)
Iran 100,309 (1.5%)
Nepal 93,469 (1.4%)
China 32,637 (0.5%)
Other Asian 151,234 (2.3%)
Other African 72,453 (1.1%)
Europe and Australia 134,630 (2.1%)
North American 41,354 (0.6%)
South American 4,177 (0.1%)
Total 6,493,929 (100.0%)
The above details were published in Al Bayan newspaper on 29th of October; For more details you can refer to the link below (in Arabic)
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