| Population | 9,856,612 (July 2021 est.) note: the UN estimated the country's total population was 9,771,000 as of mid-year 2019; immigrants make up 87.9% of the total population, according to UN data (2019) |
| Nationality | noun: Emirati(s) adjective: Emirati |
| Ethnic groups | Emirati 11.6%, South Asian 59.4% (includes Indian 38.2%, Bangladeshi 9.5%, Pakistani 9.4%, other 2.3%), Egyptian 10.2%, Filipino 6.1%, other 12.8% (2015 est.) |
| Languages | Arabic (official), English, Hindi, Malayam, Urdu, Pashto, Tagalog, Persian major-language sample(s): ???? ????? ??????? ?????? ???? ?? ???? ????????? ??? ????????? ???????? (Arabic) The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. |
| Religions | Muslim (official) 76%, Christian 9%, other (primarily Hindu and Buddhist, less than 5% of the population consists of Parsi, Baha'i, Druze, Sikh, Ahmadi, Ismaili, Dawoodi Bohra Muslim, and Jewish) 15% (2005 est.) note: data represent the total population; as of 2019, immigrants make up about 87.9% of the total population, according to UN data |
| Age structure | 0-14 years: 14.45% (male 745,492/female 698,330) 15-24 years: 7.94% (male 431,751/female 361,804) 25-54 years: 68.03% (male 5,204,618/female 1,592,987) 55-64 years: 7.68% (male 658,892/female 108,850) 65 years and over: 1.9% (male 146,221/female 43,138) (2020 est.) |
| Dependency ratios | total dependency ratio: 19.2 youth dependency ratio: 17.7 elderly dependency ratio: 1.5 potential support ratio: 66.4 (2020 est.) |
| Median age | total: 38.4 years male: 40.4 years female: 31.5 years (2020 est.) |
| Population growth rate | 0.62% (2021 est.) |
| Birth rate | 10.87 births/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Death rate | 1.51 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Net migration rate | -3.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Population distribution | population is heavily concentrated to the northeast on the Musandam Peninsula; the three largest emirates - Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah - are home to nearly 85% of the population |
| Urbanization | urban population: 87.3% of total population (2021) rate of urbanization: 1.5% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major cities - population | 2.921 million Dubai, 1.737 million Sharjah, 1.512 million ABU DHABI (capital) (2021) |
| Sex ratio | at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.07 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.19 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 3.27 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 6.05 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 3.39 male(s)/female total population: 2.56 male(s)/female (2020 est.) |
| Maternal mortality rate | 3 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | total: 5.25 deaths/1,000 live births male: 5.82 deaths/1,000 live births female: 4.65 deaths/1,000 live births (2021 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 79.37 years male: 78.04 years female: 80.78 years (2021 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 1.65 children born/woman (2021 est.) |
| Drinking water source | improved: total: 100% of population unimproved: total: 0% of population (2017 est.) |
| Health expenditures | 4.2% (2018) |
| Physicians density | 2.53 physicians/1,000 population (2018) |
| Hospital bed density | 1.4 beds/1,000 population (2017) |
| Sanitation facility access | improved: total: 98.6% of population unimproved: total: 1.4% of population (2017 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | 0.1% (2020) |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | <1,000 (2020) |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths | 100 <100 (2020) |
| Major infectious diseases | note: widespread ongoing transmission of a respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is occurring throughout UAE; as of 6 April 2021, UAE has reported a total of 472,148 cases of COVID-19 or 4,773.8 cumulative cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 population with 15.29 cumulative deaths per 100,000 population; as of 23 February 2021, 35.2% of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine |
| Obesity - adult prevalence rate | 31.7% (2016) |
| Education expenditures | NA |
| Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 93.8% male: 93.1% female: 95.8% (2015) |
| School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) | total: 14 years male: 14 years female: 15 years (2017) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021
