population and demographics
Language and religion in Dubai
Language
Arabic is the official language of Dubai, but English, Hindi, Malayalam, Persian, Tagalog, Bengali and Urdu are all widely spoken.
English is generally used as the language of business as it is the second language common to most people.
Religion
Islam is the state religion of the UAE.
The government subsidises 95 percent of all mosques and employs all [...]
Gender and age in Dubai
Gender
The official 2006 census counted 1,073,000 males and 349,000 females in Dubai.
Going by these figures women would make up 33 percent of the population; in reality this figure is likely to be much lower as there are many more undeclared or transient male residents than there are female.
Age, birth rate and death rate
Dubai has a [...]
Race and nationality in Dubai
As of 1998, 17 percent of the population of Dubai was made up of UAE nationals, the remaining 83 percent being foreign nationals.
Approximately 85 percent of the expatriate population (71 percent of the total population) was Asian, around three percent of the total population was categorised as “Western”.
There was an additional 16 percent of the [...]
The growing population of Dubai
The population of the metropolitan area of Dubai is 2,261,995, the largest population of all the emirates. For the sake of comparison, the population of the metropolitan area of London is 13,063,441.
The population density of Dubai is 408 people per square km (1,057 per square mile); London has a density of 4,761 people per square [...]