UAE: Total labour force in the private sector by economic activity (2017-2022)

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Agriculture 35,930 35,762 34,643 N.A. 23,443 28,009
Fishing 10,997 10,510 9,806 N.A. 9,350 11,668
Mining and quarrying 66,209 64,552 60,493 N.A. 13,986 8,300
Manufacturing 473,691 462,966 468,916 N.A. 572,390 660,863
Electricity, gas and water supply 7,526 7,661 7,358 N.A. 9,672 9,455
Construction 1,711,761 1,682,416 1,641,724 N.A. 1,301,359 1,386,498
Trade and repair services 1,121,742 1,095,026 1,103,915 N.A. 1,041,800 1,129,192
Hotels and restaurants 235,549 237,990 249,867 N.A. 256,506 286,935
Transport, storage and communications 368,331 350,413 353,485 N.A. 283,709 297,330
Financial intermediation 71,167 72,948 72,075 N.A. 64,012 77,246
Business activities 593,792 610,943 649,245 N.A. 908,158 1,068,497
Education 87,876 91,628 93,152 N.A. 69,158 67,495
Health and social work 82,714 87,664 90,028 N.A. 76,197 84,846
Social and personal services 154,494 158,934 193,527 N.A. 233,988 306,913
Public administration 1,371 5,824 N.A. 51,253
Extraterritorial organizations 45 52 55 N.A.
Private households 24 21 23 N.A.
Undefined/other activities 17,502 25,047 60,647 N.A. 39,884 2,866
Total 5,039,350 4,995,904 5,094,783 4,799,196 4,903,612 5,477,366

Source: Labour Market Information System, Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE)                                                  

ANNEXED NOTE                                                                                                                               

 

  1. Characteristics of data:

 

The figures pertain to the number of workers registered in the UAE’s private sector, with the MoHRE.

The labour force includes all economically active individuals in the community, whether they are already working or looking for work

https://www.mohre.gov.ae/en/definitions.aspx

Employed persons: Individuals who are already engaged in productive work: it includes individual who are employed, even if they do not work because of illness or injury,

holiday or for irregular work at the facilities in which they work for temporary or incidental reasons. This category also includes full-time and part-time workers.

Unemployed: Individuals who are able to work and wishing to do so, were still searching jobs during the survey. This category includes the unemployed who never entered the labour market, and who have previously worked and had to leave their jobs for any reason as a result of labour market conditions.

 

Reference period: end of year.

 

Workers employed in the Free Zones are not included in the figures.

Classification of activities: ISIC rev. 3.1

 

  1. Institution which provides data:

 

Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE): http://www.mohre.gov.ae/en/home.aspx

  1. Data availability:

 

The data is taken from the “open data” section of MoHRE website:

https://www.mohre.gov.ae/en/data-library/statistical-report.aspx

Data is downloadable in Excel (.csv) format, for the current year.

 

Past years: data for 2011-2019 is available in a raw dataset

https://www.mohre.gov.ae/handlers/download.ashx?YXNzZXQ9NjAzNQ==

No archive of data available for the period 2020-2021, as of Decembre 2022.

Total figures published in the 2011-2019 dataset may have been readjusted by MoHRE in later publications.

 

Date of access: 07 December 2022.

GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change; that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from; that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.

 

Keywords:

United Arab Emirates, Labour Market, Employment