United Arab Emirates — Market Overview
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
The UAE market is best read through domestic liquidity, real estate and banking, and the broader role of Dubai and Abu Dhabi as regional hubs for trade, tourism, and capital allocation. The cleanest read usually comes from oil-linked liquidity support, property and banking strength, and whether international capital continues to treat the UAE as a regional safe-growth hub.
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United Arab Emirates en un coup d'œil
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Country dashboard
Pourquoi ce marché compte
This version combines a stylized country map with a switchable macro explorer built from official published history, using OECD primary datasets where available and World Bank annual series where coverage is otherwise incomplete.
Explorateur macro
Changez de variable, gardez le contexte du pays
GDP, inflation, labor, policy, and industrial activity are shown on a quarterly path from 2000 onward, while debt and the local equity benchmark come in when usable history exists. This keeps the page focused on fiscal room and macro regime while the broader official country pipeline keeps expanding.
Real GDP growth
Annual real GDP growth from World Bank national accounts.
Variables disponibles
Commerce et position extérieure
Exportations, services et balance extérieure
Plutôt qu'un mur générique de cartes macro, cette section se concentre sur la manière dont le pays attire la demande étrangère, où se situe son avantage commercial et comment évolue sa balance extérieure.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand United Arab Emirates is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where United Arab Emirates is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Composition des échanges
Ce que le pays exporte
Partenaires commerciaux
Où le pays commerce
Prisme des matières premières
Exposition aux matières premières
Trade in goods and services equaled 199.0% of GDP in 2023. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 32.5% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 8.8% of merchandise exports in 2023.
Fuel exports accounted for 68.2% of merchandise exports in 2023, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 2.9% of merchandise exports in 2023, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Source : World Bank API: totalExports,
Ce qu'il faut surveiller
Grille de lecture
regional hub activity
United Arab Emirates should first be read through regional hub activity. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
property and banking
The cleanest read usually comes from oil-linked liquidity support, property and banking strength, and whether international capital continues to treat the UAE as a regional safe-growth hub. That makes property and banking one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
oil-linked liquidity
The final layer is oil-linked liquidity, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the FTSE ADX General.
Autres pays
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Chaque carte ouvre le même modèle de pays avec sa propre carte, des variables macro permutables et une vue de référence. C'est le premier réseau lié de pages pays de la région.
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A large sanctions-affected market driven by inflation, currency weakness, commodities, and domestic liquidity.
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🇮🇶 Iraq
An oil-dominated frontier market where state spending, security conditions, and banking liquidity shape the opportunity set.
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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
A large Gulf market driven by oil, state-led investment, banking liquidity, and the Vision 2030 capex cycle.
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🇹🇷 Turkey
A high-beta market where inflation, rates, FX credibility, banks, and exporters all collide in the valuation story.
Real GDP growth
Ce que cela signale
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 7.2%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still upward.