Demographics
Dubai is unusual in that the majority of its population of 1.8 million is comprised of expatriates. The vast majority are low income workers from the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines, although there are a significant number of professionals from Europe and Australasia.
77% are male and 23% female. The gender distortion is due to the large number of foreign construction workers employed in the city.
Growth Rate
At the end of the first quarter of 2010, the population growth rate stood at 2 percent.
What is the ratio of men to women in Dubai?
Been Dubai 3 years in a row It’s such a beautiful country! Who really cares if Los Angeles is bigger than Dubai seriously?
I think it is actually quite interesting that Dubai’s population has grown rapidly over the last 2 decades.
There are not 4 million people in Dubai. There are not even 2 million. I was there for a week before the major melt down. A very strange vibe. You felt the money (this is before the collapse) but you also felt a little bit of something that was not quite right. Almost a criminal type of vibe. Dubai sucks!
Dubai is a very expensive city. Basically a problem for low income people.
RC, Tony B’s comment was not racist. It was not inflammatory or discriminatory. It was an accurate reflection of the current demographics (although he could extend Indian to Pakistani and Bangladeshi) and is supported by the first paragraph of this page.
I am a Singaporean of Arab descent. I was in Dubai in 2006. I can say that Dubai does not offer quality of life for low income people. Even a bed space can cause a burnt hole in a low income person’s pocket. Many female Russians work as property agents. The policemen in Dubai too looked like they are from other Arab countries. They don’t negotiate and are very stern. Customer service at police stations is hard to get.
All of you are wrong. The metropolitan area of New York City has a population of 8 million people. In LA, there are 3 million people in the metropolitan area. I would not consider Riverside, San Bernardino, OC, or Simi Valley to be LA. Those are in the outskirts and people only travel there to work since there’s nothing in those smaller cities. Dubai is a little bigger than Las Vegas but is pretty dense for such a small land area. If you want to talk about big cities, go to New York, Tokyo, or Mexico City. New York is massive, dense, and action-packed 24/7.
Jeffrey needs to do some travelling. LA has a population of way over 10 million. Dubai is about 2 million people. Women can walk about safely at any time of day or night.
Get a life Tony – racist remarks such as construction workers being Indian males are unwarranted. Remember, the workers are the ones that have broken their backs to build this city whilst Western rejects like yourself escape to this country and try make a life.
Dubai has a population of 1.4 million. LA has about 10 million ! You cannot compare these two cities.
Well, your comments are strangely amazing. Remember we live in a grossly diverse global village, so we should appreciate and fuse our diversity to better enjoy this great wonderful planet.
I am from LA and for the guy that said Dubai is about the size of Los Angeles, he is dead wrong. Dubai is extremely tiny. It is about 1/100th of Los Angeles. For me to drive from the beginning to the end (zone-wise) from Los Angeles takes 4 hours (no traffic) and with traffic it could be 7 hours. LA is massive.
I do not believe there are 1.3 million people in Dubai. Dubai is probaly the size of Los Angeles and Los Angeles has 3 million people. Dubai has a lot of buildings for the little bit of people they have. There is probably 5 million people
90% of Dubai population is expatriate majority of whom are the contructions workers. Yes, almost all the "low income" workers are from the sub-continent, but there are significant/equal/more number of professionals from there aswell. It’s amazing how a website can make such blatantly false statement without realising both it’s implications and checking facts.
I believe it was the late king of Saudi Arabia, King Faisal, who once spoke in an interview of 78 rapes per hour that occur in the States. Kaylee perhaps needs to travel outside his / her domain to understand that the middle east should not be summed up in a nutshell of women being indoors, while men go scavenging for attacking females, as your Fox News tends to portray. Dubai currently is considered not only the most modern city in the middle east, but compared to the fashion of Milan and Paris, film industry of Europe, friendlier working environment than America, and higher tolerance for a cosmoplitan society than anywhere in the west. It is unfortunate that to date, people in the west — at least those that believe anything their media feeds them and have not travelled outside their country — have backward notions about the rest of the world. I suggest to Kaylee to please consider expanding his / her literature and mediums of knowledge.
No wonder sex trafficking and rapes occur on a daily basis. They need some women.
I do not believe that only 1.3 million people live in Dubai. How many tourists or visitors are here at any one time. I live in Miami and am very familiar with Los Angeles , Vegas, New York and travel patterns in other cities like Buenos Aires and London. There are millions of people here at least 4 -6 million. I believe that the population amounts just like the summer temps reported here are manipulated. It is never reported to be over 50C as it means construction must stop and many days its over and the report reads 49. It would be interesting to know the truth. I can definitely without a doubt tell you that there is at least 4 million people plus in this area as I write you. I am not stupid but it amazing how many people say that there is a million people here . I mean come on. Boston and San Francisco have around that amount and they are tiny blobs compared to this.
As you can see from the statistics Dubai is very much a male society. The distortion is caused by the huge number of construction workers (read Indian males) currently in Dubai.