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United Arab Emirates is located at the Persian Gulf. Neigbours
are Saudi Arabia in the west, and Oman in the south. The UAE
is from the beginning seven emirates, and in december 2nd 1971, they became one nation. The capital city
is Abu Dhabi which is the largest
and richest of the emirates. The population are less than 3 million
people and out of these, 80 percent are expatriats. Arabic is the
official language and is used by
the Nationals, however English can be used everywhere.
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| People |
| Population: |
2,262,309
(July 1997 est.)
note: includes 1,546,547 non-nationals (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: |
total
population: 1.56 male(s)/female (1997 est.) |
| Infant
mortality rate: |
6.9
deaths/1,000 live births (1997 est.) |
| Total
fertility rate: |
15.5
deaths/1,000 live births (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 |
| 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
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| 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 |
| Flag
description: |
three
equal horizontal bands of green (top), white, and black
with a thicker vertical red band on the hoist side |
| 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.) |
| Currency: |
1
Emirian dirham (Dh) = 100 fils |
|
| Telephones: |
677,793
(1993 est.) |
| Telephone
system: |
domestic:
microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth stations—3 Intelsat (1
Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean) |
| 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 |
| 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.) |
| Pipelines: |
crude
oil 830 km; natural gas, including natural gas liquids, 870 km |
| 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. |
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