United Arab Emirates Urban Population
United Arab Emirates urban population data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 85.82%.
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Interpretation
United Arab Emirates recorded 85.82% for Urban Population in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 0.15 percentage points, from 85.67% to 85.82%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (85.10%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 84.33% in 2015 and the high was 85.82% in 2024.