If we stop to consider the nature of the United Arab Emirates’ population, we will find that it is quite the unique one; an enormous expatriate population that land(ed) here from all corners of the globe with hopes and ambitions of earning more money or setting up their own companies; and a small ratio of a national population. What’s more, the expatriate numbers continue to increase as more and more tourists adoringly make plans to move here permanently.
It is not a very common ratio to find, even with all the global diversity that we see. For example, other countries in the GCC also have growing expatriate populations but they also have a large national population to balance it out. The nature of Dubai differentiates it because almost the entirety of its population is there to work. They are not citizens or nationals on the government’s payroll like in every other country but rather just forces of career driven people there to provide for themselves, their families and earn that extra buck that they couldn’t in their home countries.
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