3% of the Emiratis in the age group (15 - 34) among the Arab youth

  • Shamma bint Suhail Al Mazrouei

  • Said theoretical

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The Arab Youth Center reported that Emiratis in the age group from 15 to 34 years represent 3% of Arab youth, indicating that 64% of Arab youth who participated in an opinion poll conducted by the center, in which 7,000 young men and women from 21 countries participated, consider getting A job suited to their field of study and experience is a priority.

Finally, the Arab Youth Center launched the first edition of its publication "100 Answers about Arab Youth", which is the outcome of a comprehensive study of the most important data and facts that draw the current reality of Arab youth. The new version published on the center's website and digital platforms answers 100 key questions of interest to Arab youth. And all institutions working with youth, by identifying the most prominent trends of Arab youth according to facts based on research, and providing reliable data and information for decision-makers in the Arab world to develop youth empowerment programs and policies. The 100 answers included in the first edition of its kind cover eight vital sectors including employment and entrepreneurship. , Education, sports, health, demographics, personal and community identity, geographic distribution, digital and social media.

The Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Vice President of the Arab Youth Center, Shamma bint Suhail Al Mazrouei, said: “Young people in the Arab world are looking for more options in the fields of educational attainment, specialized training and more diversity in job opportunities that achieve their personal and professional aspirations and meet the needs of the labor market, in order to play. A bigger role in the development paths in our Arab societies.

The provision of these options can be achieved by developing well-thought-out strategic plans based on numbers, research and studies for the various interests, needs and aspirations of Arab youth.

And she continued: “Arab youth have the capabilities, capabilities and motivation to lead the positive qualitative transformation in all development paths.

Especially after the world emerged from the exceptional health situation imposed on it by the outbreak of the new Corona epidemic, and we are all required to provide opportunities for young people to accomplish this, whether in the fields of education, health, work, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.

She added: “Data and information will constitute a national and human wealth in the coming years and decades.

Because it shows us the available development opportunities, and sheds light on the most prominent economic and social development accelerators in the Arab world and the world, especially the human and youth component.

Saeed Al Nazri, Director General of the Federal Youth Foundation, Chief Strategy Officer at the Arab Youth Center, said: “This publication is the outcome of research and studies that diagnose with numbers an important aspect of the reality of Arab youth, with their challenges, opportunities, priorities, capabilities, latent energy and unlimited ambitions.

Today, the Arab Youth Center puts at the disposal of decision makers and those working on strategic visions, youth policies and development plans an integrated package of information and data that helps to develop fruitful and inclusive policies that involve more young people in the Arab world in the process of building and empower them in their countries.

Al-Nazari emphasized that all results of this report will be available to youth institutions, academic institutes, universities, research centers, ministries and Arab organizations concerned with developing the capabilities of Arab youth.

The Deputy Executive Director of the Center, Sadiq Jarrar, said: “The use of the scientific and research method in the strategic development plans has become today a basic criterion for its success, and the provision of accurate and comprehensive data in the most important sectors of interest to youth allows us now to all benefit from the diverse data source that the Arab Youth Center provides for all. To benefit from it through the Arab Youth Fact Report that helps;

By answering 100 important questions, to explore the promising future opportunities that Arab youth and institutions supporting them can benefit from at the level of the Arab world as a whole.

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