United Arab Emirates Employment Rate
United Arab Emirates employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 76.89%.
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United Arab Emirates · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
United Arab Emirates recorded 76.89% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.10 percentage points, from 76.79% to 76.89%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (76.44%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 74.66% in 2021 and the high was 77.61% in 2019.