Recruitment Dubai

POPULATION IN DUBAI

Until twenty years ago Dubai was originally a small trading port on the mouth of a creek, which had evolved from a fishing village inhabited by members of the Bani Yas tribe in the eighteenth century.

At the start of the twentieth century Dubai was a prosperous port attracting settled from Iran, India and Baluchistan. The free trade and enterprise it offered brought in merchants from Persia who were anxious to escape the high customs duty their country was introducing. These settlers were of mostly Arab and Sunni origin.

This in turn gave rise to an Indian population becoming active in the shops and alleys of the souk, and by the 1930's nearly 25% of the 20,000 population in Dubai was foreign with 2,000 Persians, 1,000 Baluchis and Indians and other settlers from Bahrain, Kuwait and Hasa in South Arabia. The British made it their coastal headquarters with a political agency in 1954.

The population has increased ten times over since the 1960's and now Dubai has more than one million inhabitants with over our hundred hotels to accommodate the workers and tourists who contribute so much to the economy. At the last count 22% of the emirate's population were ethnically Emirati in a mixed population which has to be one of the most cosmopolitan in the world. With a population which is 95% Muslim, Arabic is the official language but English, Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog from the Philippines are also widely spoken.