World population/United Arab Emirates
Asia
Population of United Arab Emirates
11,574,684
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#86
world rank
0.14%
of world population
+1.56%
yearly change
+180,918
people this year
119,325
births a year
11,114
deaths a year
How the figure for United Arab Emirates is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of United Arab Emirates at 11,574,684 on 1 July 2026, and projects 11,755,602 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places United Arab Emirates at number 86 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.14 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 119,325 births and 11,114 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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