UAE: Total labour force in the private sector by occupation (2011-2022)
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
| Managers | 85,314 | 96,211 | 109,415 | 128,108 | 143,732 | 153,421 | 165,686 | 175,018 | 198,765 | N.A. | 239,231 | 290,410 |
| Professionals | 237,610 | 254,818 | 275,785 | 322,765 | 367,499 | 394,816 | 420,913 | 436,397 | 455,044 | N.A. | 461,138 | 540,208 |
| Technicians and associate professionals | 210,681 | 218,451 | 226,955 | 255,486 | 276,668 | 285,110 | 299,571 | 304,759 | 316,546 | N.A. | 331,844 | 407,069 |
| Clerical support workers | 256,220 | 283,134 | 302,138 | 344,048 | 368,352 | 373,653 | 380,384 | 374,220 | 391,712 | N.A. | 475,335 | 512,817 |
| Service and sales workers | 547,696 | 598,271 | 625,676 | 699,073 | 731,065 | 740,400 | 750,770 | 746,648 | 764,004 | N.A. | 786,193 | 856,146 |
| Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 9,504 | 9,959 | 9,828 | 10,622 | 10,867 | 11,399 | 12,019 | 11,807 | 11,655 | N.A. | 14,625 | 15,784 |
| Craft and related trades workers | 1,029,822 | 1,035,940 | 985,443 | 1,072,763 | 1,143,756 | 1,168,838 | 1,207,833 | 1,171,991 | 1,143,592 | N.A. | 1,117,677 | 1,213,752 |
| Plant and machine operators, and assemblers | 385,020 | 402,447 | 416,412 | 464,830 | 496,154 | 516,460 | 524,809 | 513,577 | 518,484 | N.A. | 490,091 | 560,030 |
| Elementary occupations | 1,090,766 | 1,102,983 | 1,060,462 | 1,151,002 | 1,196,164 | 1,231,971 | 1,277,356 | 1,261,468 | 1,294,972 | N.A. | 987,478 | 1,081,146 |
| NA | 58 | 44 | 32 | 30 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 19 | 9 | N.A. | 4 | |
| Total | 3,852,691 | 4,002,258 | 4,012,146 | 4,448,727 | 4,734,285 | 4,876,087 | 5,039,350 | 4,995,904 | 5,094,783 | N.A. | 4,903,612 | 5,477,366 |
Source: Labour Market Information System, Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE)
ANNEXED NOTE
- 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 occupations: ISCO-08
- Institution which provides data:
Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE): http://www.mohre.gov.ae/en/home.aspx
- 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 2020-2022, as of February 2023.
Total figures published in the 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
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