News from Dubai » Population http://www.dubai-online.com/news Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:44:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Population of Dubai grows by 2 percent http://www.dubai-online.com/news/population-dubai-grows-2-percent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=population-dubai-grows-2-percent http://www.dubai-online.com/news/population-dubai-grows-2-percent/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:43:32 +0000 David http://www.dubai-online.com/news/?p=854 The population of Dubai grew by 2 percent in the quarter ended March 2010, despite the economic crisis affecting the emirate.

Figures released by the Dubai Statistics Centre reveal that the population at the end of the first quarter of 2010 reached 1,803,000.

The data showed that males comprised 77 percent (1.4 million) of the population, a distortion caused by the large number of male expatriate labourers employed in Dubai.

]]> http://www.dubai-online.com/news/population-dubai-grows-2-percent/feed/ 0 Population to fall in 2009 and 2010 http://www.dubai-online.com/news/population-to-fall-in-2009-and-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=population-to-fall-in-2009-and-2010 http://www.dubai-online.com/news/population-to-fall-in-2009-and-2010/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:39:41 +0000 David http://www.dubai-online.com/news/?p=283 A report by global financial services firm UBS predicts that the population of Dubai will fall by 8 percent in 2009 and 2 percent in 2010.

The vast majority of workers in Dubai are expatriates. Significant numbers are employed in the city’s troubled real estate and construction sectors.

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