The economic benefit of migrating to a high-income country like the UAE, due to petroleum reserves, is systematically larger, as demonstrated by development economist Clemens (2009) whose research on the economic benefits of migration found a substantial “place premium” 30 for Indian workers migrating to the UAE..
Since the 1970s, as the foreign-born labor force in the United Arab Emirates grew, the population imbalance grew.
According to the UAE's most recent decennial census, last conducted in 2005, 80 percent of the nation's population was foreign-born and 20 percent was UAE national..
According to the World Bank data, the UAE's population reached around 9,991,083 in 2021; expatriates still outnumbering the Emiratis.
The number of male population is 6,888,345 representing 69 per cent and the number of female population is 3,102,738 representing 31 per cent of the total population..
UAE Population in 2021 is 9.99 Million according to the data provided by the United Nations.
The Population Density in the United Arab Emirates is 118 per square kilometer.
The Total Expat Population of UAE in 2021 is 8.84 million..
Demographic Transition
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) currently has a Crude Birth Rate of 13 and a Crude Death Rate of 1.
Such a gap between CBR and CDR, combined with its Rate of Natural Increase of 1.2% would suggest that the UAE is either within late Stage 2 or early Stage 3 of Demographic Transition..
A staggering 88 percent of its 10 million people are international migrants, of which 26 percent are women 1.
According to the World Bank Global Findex, the gender gap in bank account ownership between men and women in the MENA region as of 2021 was 13 percent, the widest in the region 2..
Pakistani community in the UAE
