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Dubai In Figures

Dubai’s population hit 1,241,000 (one million two hundred forty one thousand) as on 30 June 2006. Of the total population, 73 per cent or 911,000 are male and 27 per cent or 330,000 are female. There were 5859 births in Dubai’s government hospital during the first half of this year, of these 2933 were male and 2926 female. Land deals worth Dhs22.9 billion were carried out in Dubai during the period under review while 1128 buildings were completed at a cost of Dhs5.579 billion, of which 207 investment buildings, 710 residential buildings, and 211 buildings were meant for recreational, service and industrial purposes. The total number of airline trips at Dubai International Airport during the first six months of this year was 116,543 carrying a total of 13.76 million passengers, of whom 6.67 million were arrivals and 6.63 million were departures. There were 457,000 transit passengers. The total number of public transport buses in Dubai as on 30 June 2006 is 415 which carried some 43.87 million passengers during the first half of this year. In Dubai, there are a total of 302 hotels that consist of 30,648 rooms and recorded during the period under review a total of 2,652,771 guests. The total number of nights spent by the guests was 6,737,791 and the overall occupancy rate was 75.5 per cent. There were 111 hotel apartments in Dubai as on 30 June which offer a total of 8652 apartments and had a total of 467,890 guests during the period under review, with the total nights of stay being 1,623,750 and the occupancy rate 71.1 per cent. The total number of stocks traded in the Dubai Financial Market during this period was 21.75 billion that were worth Dhs218.44 billion. The Dubai International Stock Exchange registered the transaction of some 11.7 million shares worth Dhs87.29 million. During the period under review, 5,769 new trade licenses were issued in Dubai. Other interesting figures for the first six months of this year included 68 exhibitions and conferences with a total of 457,541 visitors and delegates; and 81,594 vehicles registered.Dubai has more than 2.71 million telephone lines now, of which 2.3 million are mobile telephone lines and 535,995 land phone and fax lines. The number of Internet lines is 173,155 in addition to 482 telex lines. Dubai imported goods worth Dhs163.58 billion during the first half of this year, while the export figures stood at Dhs50.59 billion and the re-export figures were Dhs39.87 billion.The municipality collected over 6.5 million tonnes of waste in the first six months of this year. The total green area in the city has reached 141,755 square metres.

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