UAE: Total labour force in the private sector by economic activity and Emirate (2015)

Dubai Abu Dhabi Sharjah Ajman Ras Al Khaimah Fujairah Um Al Quwwain Total
Agriculture 15,133 18,149 332 114 479 238 31 34,476
Fishing 1,799 1,743 2,364 1,140 1,771 1,209 912 10,938
Mining and quarrying 2,950 61,088 816 228 146 3,429 29 68,686
Manufacturing 180,015 99,197 104,023 52,201 15,265 8,991 11,553 471,245
Electricity, gas and water supply 2,017 2,633 209 1,178 365 125 690 7,217
Construction 716,914 543,491 171,543 71,843 39,989 24,837 9,592 1,578,209
Trade and repair services 626,905 229,702 145,441 45,676 28,385 20,311 6,490 1,102,910
Hotels and restaurants 107,030 59,652 23,349 9,939 7,163 4,150 2,258 213,541
Transport, storage and communications 208,947 97,778 23,308 6,917 7,577 11,283 1,459 357,269
Financial intermediation 44,152 13,561 6,294 522 465 403 173 65,570
Business activities 277,897 200,935 29,601 10,646 7,452 3,506 918 530,955
Education 34,109 22,688 12,162 3,893 1,670 1,337 389 76,248
Health and social work 31,046 27,983 5,723 1,748 845 1,172 183 68,700
Social and personal services 52,434 52,043 20,520 6,866 6,336 3,543 1,112 142,854
Public administration  
Extraterritorial organizations 16 1 3 20
Private households 22 13 35
Undefined/other activities 4,427 563 156 19 187 60 5,412
Total 2,305,791 1,431,229 545,857 212,930 118,095 84,594 35,789 4,734,285

Source: GLMM’s elaboration, based on data from the 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

These data for 2011-2019 are available in a raw dataset downloadable in Excel (.csv) format.

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

Distributions of private sector workers by activity available for the period 2020-2022 are not disaggregated by Emirate.

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

 

Date of access: February 2023.

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