United Arab Emirates
- Capital
- Abu Dhabi
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 12 million
- Currency
- AED
- Area
- 83,600 kmΒ²
Across United Arab Emirates's 12 priced cities, one person needs about $2,877 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $2,880.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
59out of 100
- Purchasing power25%62
- Safety20%86
- Health care15%71
- Climate10%43
- Air quality10%6
- Connectivity10%99
- Cost10%12
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #63
What it costs
Averages over the countryβs cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
60.6
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
45.3
New York = 100
Purchasing power
115.1
New York = 100
One person
$2,877
A month, rent included
Net salary
$2,880
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$1,966
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$50,274
2024
Growth
+4.0%
2024
Unemployment
2.2%
2025
Inflation
1.3%
2025
Life expectancy
83.1 years
2024
Internet users
100%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 9%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 5%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Social security, employee
- 5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 12.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeoβs crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 86.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 13.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 0.7
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #2 worldwide
- 382
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #1 worldwide
- 676
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +17%
Cities in United Arab Emirates
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Umm Al Quwain | 71 | 46.6 | $681 | $3,358 | 278.2 | 59.1K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 2Fujairah | 68 | 51.6 | $590 | $3,721 | 311.6 | 118.9K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 3Al Dhannah (Al Ruwais) | 66 | 57.2 | β | $2,723 | 187.2 | β | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Al Ain | 66 | 54.0 | $708 | $2,703 | 203.5 | 846.7K | High confidence, 39 contributors |
| 5Ras al-Khaimah | 62 | 63.1 | $749 | $1,597 | 107.6 | 351.9K | Medium confidence, 18 contributors |
| 6Kalba | 62 | 57.2 | β | β | β | 37.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Mina Jebel Ali | 61 | 59.7 | β | β | β | β | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Sharjah | 61 | 52.4 | $810 | $2,204 | 157.8 | 1.8M | High confidence, 55 contributors |
| 9Abu Dhabi | 60 | 60.6 | $1,966 | $2,880 | 114.5 | 1.8M | High confidence, 131 contributors |
| 10Musaffah | 60 | β | β | β | β | 243.3K | Low confidence |
| 11Dayrah | 58 | β | β | β | β | 400K | Low confidence |
| 12Dubai | 58 | 69.9 | $2,413 | $3,486 | 115.1 | 3.8M | High confidence, 295 contributors |
| 13Jebel Ali | 58 | β | β | β | β | 210K | Low confidence |
| 14Business Bay | 58 | β | β | β | β | 191K | Low confidence |
| 15Dubai Investments Park | 58 | β | β | β | β | 160K | Low confidence |
| 16Dubai Marina | 58 | β | β | β | β | 120K | Low confidence |
| 17International City | 58 | β | β | β | β | 120K | Low confidence |
| 18Al Majaz | 58 | β | β | β | β | 116.5K | Low confidence |
| 19WarΔ«sΔn | 58 | β | β | β | β | 108.8K | Low confidence |
| 20Al Fujayrah | 57 | 57.7 | $2,360 | $3,744 | 132.6 | 118.9K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 21Ajman | 54 | 53.4 | $2,485 | $2,246 | 78.1 | 490K | High confidence, 26 contributors |