UAE DEVELOPMENT

1960 - 2020

The annual % of GDP growth

United Arab Emirates GDP growth
fluctuated throughout the years
(annual %) dropping the lowest in 1986 and
30 being the highest in 1980. However,
the overall change in annual % of
20
GDP over the years is negative.
10

0
1988…
1976…
1979…
1982…
1985…

1991…
1994…
1997…
2000…
2003…
2006…
2009…
2012…
2015…
2018…
-10

-20

United Arab Emirates Inflation,

consumer prices (annual %)
14
12 The graph shows that that the inflation
10 has reduced significantly since 2008,
8
6 going from 12.25 to -2.07 in 12 years.
4 This means that it is more affordable for
2
0 the citizens.
-2
-4

United Arab Emirates Unemployment, This shows that the unemployment

% has more than doubled in the
total (% of total labor force) (national UAE in the past few years. This
estimate) means that there is more labour
5 than available jobs in the UAE.
4
3
2
1
0
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
[YR2016] [YR2017] [YR2018] [YR2019] [YR2020]
 [YR2016] [YR2017] [YR2018] [YR2019] [YR2020]

This shows that UAE has a

United Arab Emirates Exports of goods high percentage of growth in
and services (annual % growth) exporting goods in most
30 years but that is not the case
25 in 2019 and 2020 which is
20 likely because of Covid 19.
15
10
5
0
2002…
2003…
2004…
2005…
2006…
2007…
2008…
2009…
2010…
2011…
2012…
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2014…
2015…
2016…
2017…
2018…
2019…
2020…
-5
-10

This also shows that

United Arab Emirates Imports of goods and UAE has experienced
services (annual % growth) an annual % of
40 growth in imports in
30 most years. However,
imports were also
20
down in 2019 and
10
2020 for the same
0 reason, Covid 19.
-10
-20
-30
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However,