Competitiveness and Statistics announces the country's population data for the year 2020

The population of the United Arab Emirates for the year 2020 reached 9,282,410 people, according to the official record data of the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Center.

The center explained that reliance on official administrative data is a pioneering model and a step that enhances the digital transformation of national statistics and data in the country, which coincides with the directions of the fifty-year plan, and the country's aspirations to enhance digital transformation in government agencies.

The Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Center also clarified that the mechanism of relying on administrative records is the first stage towards the integration and interdependence of government agencies' databases, as this electronic system will enable data users to obtain them with high accuracy for various indicators and official statistical data.

The statistics showed that the percentage of males out of the total population amounted to 69.7%, equivalent to 6,468,460 people, while the percentage of females reached 30.3%, or 2,813,950 people.

Record numbers also showed that the life expectancy at birth is 79.9 years, which indicates the quality of health care in the country, where the life expectancy of females reached 81.4 years compared to males, which reached 78.0 years.

The median age of the population in the country was 32.8 years, which means that the UAE society is young, and that most of the country's population are individuals who contribute to the labor force and constitute an important part of the country's economic growth.

The figures also showed that the average annual growth rate of the population for the past ten years (2010-2020) was 1.2%.

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