2011		2012		2013		2014			2015			2016			2017			2018			2019
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male		Female	Male		Female	Male		Female	Male		Female	Male		Female
Agriculture	24,627	577	26,009	722	27,080	911	33,013	1,349	33,214		1,262	31,740		858	35,020		910	34,813		949	33,935		708
Fishing	9,793	9	10,316	4	10,221	3	10,815	4	10,934		4	11,084		4	10,983		14	10,492		18	9,786		20
Mining and quarrying	56,638	2,042	61,455	2,146	61,397	2,378	64,534	2,774	65,856		2,830	64,071		2,823	63,480		2,729	61,792		2,760	57,551		2,942
Manufacturing	399,782	10,781	410,821	11,110	407,088	11,452	442,906	12,767	458,059		13,186	458,826		13,219	460,295		13,396	449,572		13,394	454,997		13,919
Electricity, gas and water supply	5,240	181	5,395	188	5,690	185	6,217	224	6,986		231	7,459		242	7,280		246	7,411		250	7,111		247
Construction	1,436,561	18,026	1,418,225	18,821	1,332,186	19,785	1,448,774	23,454	1,552,772		25,437	1,607,056		26,153	1,683,973		27,788	1,653,737		28,679	1,609,864		31,860
Trade and repair services	796,428	82,396	840,694	92,451	856,674	98,939	940,591	113,016	982,774		120,136	990,873		123,167	997,025		124,717	972,262		122,764	978,479		125,436
Hotels and restaurants	127,709	15,112	141,771	18,181	151,234	20,794	173,954	24,067	187,651		25,890	198,075		27,270	207,387		28,162	209,489		28,501	219,558		30,309
Transport, storage and communications	243,876	10,891	261,239	12,264	277,680	13,372	316,931	15,201	341,222		16,047	352,618		15,902	351,898		16,433	333,756		16,657	336,520		16,965
Financial intermediation	36,623	12,937	37,776	13,862	39,326	14,626	43,440	16,304	47,469		18,101	48,964		18,666	51,458		19,709	52,508		20,440	51,166		20,909
Business activities	311,656	45,363	341,731	50,972	365,065	57,356	418,023	69,714	452,255		78,700	468,106		83,654	501,039		92,753	511,149		99,794	537,808		111,437
Education	24,935	29,857	25,725	34,857	26,374	36,322	28,799	42,217	29,913		46,335	30,972		51,161	32,186		55,690	32,131		59,497	31,366		61,786
Health and social work	19,518	18,789	21,727	22,047	24,018	25,129	27,859	30,817	32,000		36,700	35,162		41,957	37,398		45,316	38,979		48,685	38,899		51,129
Social and personal services	84,255	24,177	88,664	28,866	90,739	31,564	99,361	36,483	103,853		39,001	107,016		41,165	110,723		43,771	115,365		43,569	146,013		47,514
Public administration																		1,103		268	4,682		1,142
Extraterritorial organizations	11	5	14	11	17	9	7	10	8		12	13		21	15		30	21		31	23		32
Private households	17		20		26		33		34		1	30		1	22		2	19		2	22		1
Undefined/other activities	3,456	423	3,658	516	3,833	673	4,231	838	4,434		978	16,010		1,749	15,299		2,203	22,184		2,863	55,731		4,916
Total	3,581,125	271,566	3,695,240	307,018	3,678,648	333,498	4,059,488	389,239	4,309,434		424,851	4,428,075		448,012	4,565,481		473,869	4,506,783		489,121	4,573,511		521,272

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

 

2. Institution which provides data

 

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

 

3. 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 sex.

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, Female Employment

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