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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

 

 

People

Population:

2,262,309 (July 1997 est.)

Population growth rate:

1.79% (1997 est.)

Birth rate:

18.46 births/1,000 population (1997 est.)

Death rate:

3.01 deaths/1,000 population (1997 est.)

Sex ratio:

at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female

under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 1.91 male(s)/female

65 years and over : 1.99 male(s)/female

total population: 1.56 male(s)/female (1997 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

15.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1997 est.)

Total fertility rate:

3.62 children born/woman (1997 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

total population : 74.64 years

male: 73.18 years

female : 76.17 years (1997 est.)

Literacy:

definition: age 15 and over can read and write but definition of literacy

not available

total population: 79.2%

male : 78.9%

female: 79.8% (1995 est.)

Religions:

Muslim 96% (Shi'a 16%), Christian, Hindu, and other 4%

Nationality:

noun: Emiri(s)

adjective: Emiri

Languages:

Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu

 

 

Government

Country name:

conventional long form : United Arab Emirates

conventional short form: none

local long form: Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah

local short form: none

former: Trucial States

abbreviation : UAE

Data code:

TC

Government type:

federation with specified powers delegated to the UAE federal

government and other powers reserved to member emirates

National capital:

Abu Dhabi

Independence:

2 December 1971 (from UK)

National holiday:

National Day, 2 December (1971)

Legal system:

federal court system introduced in 1971; all emirates except Dubayy

(Dubai) and Ras al Khaymah have joined the federal system; all

emirates have secular and Islamic law for civil, criminal, and high courts

Suffrage:

none

Judicial branch:

Union Supreme Court, judges appointed by the president

 

 

Economy

GDP:

purchasing power parity - $72.9 billion (1996 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

1.4% (1996 est.)

GDP - per capita:

purchasing power parity - $23,800 (1996 est.)

GDP - composition by

sector:

agriculture: 2%

industry: 43%

services : 55% (1994 est.)

Inflation rate - consumer

price index:

5.2% (1996 est.)

Labor force:

total: 794,400 (1993 est.)

by occupation: industry and commerce 56%, services 38%, agriculture

6% (1990 est.)

Unemployment rate:

NA%

Budget:

revenues: $5.1 billion

expenditures: $5.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997

est.)

Industries:

petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction materials, some boat

building, handicrafts, pearling

Industrial production

growth rate:

NA%

Agriculture - products:

dates, vegetables, watermelons; poultry, eggs, dairy products; fish

Exports:

total value: $31.3 billion (f.o.b., 1996 est.)

commodities: crude oil 66%, natural gas, reexports, dried fish, dates

partners: Japan 38%, India 6%, South Korea 6%, Singapore 5%, Iran

4%, Oman 4% (1995)

Imports:

total value: $22.3 billion (c.i.f., 1996 est.)

commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment,

food

partners : Japan 9%, US 8%, UK 8%, Italy 7%, Germany 7%, South

Korea 5% (1995)

Debt - external:

$14 billion (1996 est.)

Energy Information:

Country Analysis Briefs - United Arab Emirates

 

 

Communications

Telephones:

677,793 (1993 est.)

Telephone system:

domestic: microwave radio relay and coaxial cable

international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2

Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; submarine cables to Qatar, Bahrain, India,

and Pakistan; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to

Saudi Arabia

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 8, FM 3, shortwave 0

Radios:

545,000 (1992 est.)

Televisions:

170,000 (1993 est.)

 

 

Transportation

Railways:

0 km

Highways:

total: 4,750 km

Pipelines:

crude oil 830 km; natural gas, including natural gas liquids, 870 km

Merchant marine:

total: 60 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,128,495 GRT/1,955,344

DWT

ships by type: bulk 3, cargo 18, chemical tanker 3, container 6, liquefied

gas tanker 1, livestock carrier 1, oil tanker 22, refrigerated cargo 1,

roll-on/roll-off cargo 5 (1996 est.)

Ports and harbors:

'Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Das Island, Khawr Fakkan, Mina' Jabal 'Ali, Mina'

Khalid, Mina' Rashid, Mina' Saqr, Mina' Zayid, Umm al Qaywayn

 

 

Transnational Issues

Disputes - international:

location and status of boundary with Saudi Arabia is not final, de facto

boundary reflects 1974 agreement; no defined boundary with most of

Oman, but Administrative Line in far north; claims two islands in the

Persian Gulf occupied by Iran: Lesser Tunb (called Tunb as Sughra in

Arabic by UAE and Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Kuchek in Persian by Iran) and

Greater Tunb (called Tunb al Kubra in Arabic by UAE and Jazireh-ye

Tonb-e Bozorg in Persian by Iran); claims island in the Persian Gulf

jointly administered with Iran (called Abu Musa in Arabic by UAE and

Jazireh-ye Abu Musa in Persian by Iran) - over which Iran has taken

steps to exert unilateral control since 1992, including access

restrictions and a military build-up on the island; the UAE has garnered

significant diplomatic support in the region in protesting these Iranian

actions

Illicit drugs:

growing role as heroin transshipment and money-laundering center due

to its proximity to southwest Asian producing countries and the bustling

free trade zone in Dubai

 

- Most details quoted from CIA World Factbook

 

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