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Coste de vida
$840/mo
AE · DUBAIDatos locales
Vivir en Dubai.
The UAE's largest city and its main business and expatriate hub, on the Gulf coast. No personal income tax, a very large expatriate majority, near-universal fibre internet, and the country's densest cluster of accredited international schools. Rents and living costs are high and summers are extremely hot — pleasant outdoor weather is limited to the winter months.
Verificado
Población 4.248.200
· Asia/Dubai· Se aplican las normas de United Arab Emirates
Dubai Statistics Center — Population Bulletin, Emirate of Dubai 2024
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Dubai Statistics Center estimates the Emirate of Dubai population at 4,248,200 at end-2024 (68.5% male / 31.5% female — a male skew driven by single labour migrants). The emirate of Dubai is effectively a single metropolitan area, so this is the closest official figure to the city; the DSC does not publish a separate city-proper figure. The DSC PDF host (dsc.gov.ae) refused direct connection at verification, but the exact figure was read from the official Population Bulletin PDF via search cache.
AE · DUBAI
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Vista rápida
Las cifras principales de Dubai, cada una con su fuente y su frescura. Una cifra oficial viva no es lo mismo que una estimación de encuesta ni que una normal climática de 30 años.
8.3/10
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Alquiler, 1–3 dorm.
$1967–$4974
/mes
03
Impuestos del autónomo
0%
Seguridad
9.6/100,69/100k
Calidad del aire
sin datos verificados
Internet
3.5/1038 Mbps
Inglés
7.0/10High
Sanidad privada
6.9/10$1630/yr
Qué significan las etiquetasoficial — cifra viva de un gobierno o una autoridaddatos abiertos — conjunto de datos abierto (Eurostat, AEMA, M-Lab, UdSC…)encuesta — estimación de una encuesta o un índicerecopilado — estimación montada por SettleMetric: abre la fuente para ver el método
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Lo que te cuesta al mes
Una estimación para planificar: alquiler de oferta real más una cesta de coste de vida ajustada a tu hogar. No es un presupuesto en firme.
Hogar
Estilo de vida
Zona
Total estimado
$2807/mes
≈ $33.684 / año
En qué se va
- Alquiler (1 dorm.)$1967
- Food & non-alcoholic drinks (groceries)$259
- Restaurants & eating out$136
- Communications (mobile + home internet)$95
- Recreation & culture$82
- Transport (RTA Nol 2-zone monthly pass)$63
- Utilities (DEWA electricity, water)$51
- Household goods & toiletries$41
- Clothing & footwear$41
- Miscellaneous$39
- Health (out-of-pocket)$33
- Gastos corrientes$840
El alquiler sale de la matriz de alquileres de oferta de abajo. Los gastos corrientes escalan una cesta de una persona ($840/mes) según el tamaño del hogar y el estilo de vida; los factores de equivalencia son un supuesto nuestro. No se incluyen colegios ni gastos únicos de instalación.
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Coste de vida
Lo que gasta al mes una persona sola —comida, suministros, transporte, comer fuera y lo demás—, sin contar el alquiler.
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Each AED line item of the cost-of-living-single basket converted at 3.6725 AED/USD and rounded: groceries 950→259, restaurants 500→136, communications 350→95, recreation 300→82, transport (Nol 2-zone) 230→63, utilities (DEWA) 186→51, household goods 150→41, clothing 150→41, miscellaneous 150→39 (rounding-reconciled to the total), health OOP 120→33. Categories sum to the USD 840/mo aggregate. Utilities from the official DEWA residential slab tariff; transport from the official RTA Nol Silver 2-zone monthly pass; groceries/restaurants/other from Carrefour UAE shelf prices and reported single-person ranges. National-level; Dubai runs higher.
01Food & non-alcoholic drinks (groceries)259 USD
02Restaurants & eating out136 USD
03Communications (mobile + home internet)95 USD
04Recreation & culture82 USD
05Transport (RTA Nol 2-zone monthly pass)63 USD
06Utilities (DEWA electricity, water)51 USD
07Household goods & toiletries41 USD
08Clothing & footwear41 USD
09Miscellaneous39 USD
10Health (out-of-pocket)33 USD
Cesta de gasto de un hogar de una persona en United Arab Emirates, sin contar el alquiler. Lo que no es alquiler varía poco entre ciudades; la parte propia de cada ciudad es el alquiler, que aparece más abajo en Vivienda.
01Cost of living (single, excl. rent)a nivel de país840USD/month, single person, excluding rent8.3
Qué mide esto
Monthly cost of a defined single-person basket (food, transport, utilities, mobile+internet, modest leisure) excluding rent, curated from national statistics office price data and large local retailers' published prices, converted to USD at the ECB rate recorded in fx-rates. The method field of each value itemizes the basket inputs.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorUSD/month, single person, excluding rentse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Built as a bottom-up single-person monthly basket (excl. rent), each line from a real source, converted at the CBUAE peg 3.6725 AED/USD (used elsewhere in this file for consistency). Inputs (AED/mo): groceries 950 (Carrefour UAE shelf prices — e.g. fresh milk 1L 4.99, eggs 30pcs 13.99–22.49, chicken 1kg ~23, basmati rice 5kg ~13 — scaled to a single-person cook-at-home basket, consistent with the widely reported AED 800–1,200 single grocery range); restaurants/eating out 500; communications 350 (etisalat/du home internet + mobile); recreation/culture 300; transport 230 (RTA Dubai Nol Silver 2-zone monthly pass, official rta.ae); utilities 186 (DEWA official residential slab: electricity ~500 kWh × (0.23 + 0.06 fuel surcharge) AED/kWh + water ~6 m³ × (0.77 + 1.10) AED/m³ + misc/sewerage); household goods & toiletries 150; clothing (amortised) 150; miscellaneous 150; health out-of-pocket 120. Total ≈ AED 3,086/mo = USD 840 at 3.6725. Cross-check (upper bound): World Bank national accounts give UAE households final consumption USD 234.51bn / 10,483,751 population (2023) = USD 1,864/mo per capita all-in; removing an ~30% shelter (rent/imputed-rent) share leaves ≈ USD 1,305/mo non-rent — but that per-capita MEAN is pulled up by a wealthy Emirati/high-earner minority, so it overstates a typical single remote worker; the bottom-up basket (USD 840) is reported to stay comparable with the one-person-household figures used for Poland/Slovakia. Curated: the ideal single official source (FCSC/DSC household budget survey category basket, and the MoET Essential Goods Prices Platform) is either unpublished in machine-readable form or a live tool that was down at verification, so this is a reproducible basket, not a single national statistic. National-level; Dubai runs higher than Abu Dhabi/Sharjah.
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Vivienda
Lo que cuesta alquilar, por tipo de vivienda y zona.
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 30 jun 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Center = prime tier (Downtown Dubai / Dubai Marina / Business Bay / JBR); outside = budget + mid-tier (JVC / Dubai Silicon Oasis / International City / Dubailand / Al Furjan). Cell = midpoint of the letsprosper.ae 2026 monthly tier range, in AED/month, converted at 1 AED = 0.27131 USD (data/fx-rates.json, EUR base 2026-07-02: AED 4.201464/EUR ÷ USD 1.1399/EUR = 3.686 AED/USD). Ranges used (AED/month): studio prime 6,000–7,500 (mid 6,750→$1,831), studio budget/mid 2,500–5,500 rep. mid-tier ~4,750 ($1,289); 1BR prime 8,500–12,000 (mid 10,250→$2,781), 1BR budget/mid 4,500–8,500 rep. mid-tier ~7,250 ($1,967); 2BR prime 14,000–22,000 (mid 18,000→$4,884), 2BR affordable/mid 7,000–14,000 (mid 10,500→$2,849); 3BR prime 180,000–260,000/yr = 15,000–21,667/mo (mid 18,333→$4,974), 3BR mid-market 110,000–145,000/yr = 9,167–12,083/mo (mid 10,625→$2,882). Cross-checked against Bayut 2025 annual reads: Downtown 1BR AED 142k/yr (≈AED 11.8k/mo, $3,211), Marina 1BR AED 110k/yr (≈$2,487), JVC 1BR AED 78k/yr (≈$1,764), Downtown 2BR AED 241k/yr (≈$5,449), Marina 3BR AED 252k/yr (≈$5,697) — all consistent with the tier midpoints above.
- Notas
- ALL EIGHT cells are DERIVED as midpoints of published tier ranges (letsprosper.ae 2026), not single observed values — no Dubai source publishes a static studio/1BR/2BR/3BR × center/outside grid. The tier ranges themselves are directly published; the center/outside mapping to prime vs budget-and-mid communities is SettleMetric's, matching the task's definition (center = Downtown/Marina/Business Bay/JBR; outside = JVC/International City/Dubailand/outer suburbs). 3BR-outside uses mid-market (not budget) communities because budget areas publish few 3BR apartments. Cross-checked against Bayut/DLD annual per-area reads for consistency.
| Vivienda | Centro | Fuera del centro |
|---|---|---|
| Estudio | 1831 USD/mes | 1289 USD/mes |
| 1 dormitorio | 2781 USD/mes | 1967 USD/mes |
| 2 dormitorios | 4884 USD/mes | 2849 USD/mes |
| 3 dormitorios | 4974 USD/mes | 2882 USD/mes |
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Clima
Temperatura y lluvia a lo largo del año, más la calidad del aire.
NOAA/WMO Climatological Standard Normals 1991–2020 — Dubai International Airport (WMO 41194)
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- WMO 1991–2020 station normals for Dubai Intl Airport (WMO 41194), NCEI accession 0253808 (public domain). Values read directly from the station CSV: Precipitation_Total (param 1), Daily_Maximum_Temperature (param 3), Daily_Minimum_Temperature (param 4). Hot desert climate: mean daily max rises from ~24°C in January to ~42°C in July–August; annual precipitation only ~80mm, concentrated Dec–Mar.
Temperatura media de día y de noche (líneas, eje izquierdo) y lluvia total (barras, eje derecho) por mes, con normales de 1991–2020. Pasa el cursor por un mes para ver las cifras exactas.
| ene | feb | mar | abr | may | jun | jul | ago | sept | oct | nov | dic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Máxima diurna °C | 24.4° | 26.1° | 28.9° | 33.7° | 38.2° | 40.3° | 41.5° | 41.9° | 39.5° | 35.9° | 30.7° | 26.5° |
| Mínima nocturna °C | 15.3° | 16.4° | 18.6° | 22.3° | 26.1° | 28.6° | 31.2° | 31.5° | 28.9° | 25.4° | 21.1° | 17.3° |
| Lluvia mm | 21 | 10 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 15 |
01Climate comfort3pleasant months/year3.0
Qué mide esto
Number of months whose 1991–2020 climate normals satisfy: mean daily maximum between 15°C and 28°C and monthly precipitation under 150mm. Computed from the city's climate-normals indicator; the raw normals are stored alongside so users can judge by their own taste.
Cuanto más alto, mejorpleasant months/yearse vuelve a verificar cada 3650 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals (NOAA/WMO — Dubai Intl Airport, WMO 41194)
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28°C and precipitation < 150mm: Jan (24.4°C), Feb (26.1°C), Dec (26.5°C) = 3. March misses at 28.9°C; April–November are all above 28°C (up to ~42°C). Precipitation never limits (max monthly ~22mm).
02Air quality (PM2.5)sin datos verificados—
Qué mide esto
Annual mean fine-particulate (PM2.5) concentration for the city, latest available year. Anchors follow the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³ → 10) through the EU limit value territory (25 µg/m³ → 2). Preferred source: European Environment Agency city-level air quality data; outside Europe: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database or the national monitoring network.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorµg/m³, annual mean PM2.5se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
No verified Dubai city-measured annual-mean PM2.5 recorded. The WHO Ambient Air Quality Database (V8.0) is the correct source for a city PM2.5 value but is distributed only as a downloadable Excel; the specific Dubai row was not extractable at verification. The only accessible figure is a national MODELLED estimate (WHO GHO SDGPM25 / IHME GBD 2023), which puts the UAE annual-mean PM2.5 at roughly 34 µg/m³ nationally (urban areas ~35–37 µg/m³) for 2023 — about 7× the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³, driven mainly by desert dust. That is a country-level modelled number, not a Dubai station measurement, so it is not recorded as the city value. Aggregator sites (IQAir, aqi.in) are excluded as forbidden/non-official. To be replaced with the Dubai row from the WHO Ambient DB Excel or a Dubai Municipality monitoring-network annual mean in a later pass.
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Seguridad
Cómo de segura es la vida diaria, según estadísticas oficiales de criminalidad.
01Homicide ratea nivel de país0,7intentional homicides per 100,000/year9.6
Qué mide esto
Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 population, latest available year. Country level: UNODC national series. City level: official municipal/police statistics where published; otherwise null (country value shown as country-level).
Cuanto más bajo, mejorintentional homicides per 100,000/yearse vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Datos abiertos
World Bank (UNODC series) — Intentional homicides per 100,000, United Arab Emirates
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2022
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Latest non-null year is 2022 (0.693 per 100k); 2023 is not yet published. Prior years: 2021 = 0.45, 2020 = 0.69, 2019 = 0.68. One of the lowest homicide rates in the world.
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Infraestructura
Velocidad de internet y cómo llegan los paquetes a tu puerta.
01Domestic delivery qualitya nivel de paísExcellent10.0
Qué mide esto
Quality of in-country parcel delivery. excellent = nationwide next-day widely available, dense parcel-locker network, real-time tracking standard; good = 1–3 day delivery, lockers in major cities; basic = reliable but slow (3–7 days), mostly to-door or post-office pickup; poor = unreliable delivery, street addresses often unusable, informal workarounds common. Classified from official service/coverage data of the national postal operator and the two largest private carriers; inputs itemized in each value's method field.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
Emirates Post (official universal postal operator) — domestic services + major carrier networks
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Emirates Post offers Domestic Express (1–2 business days) and Domestic Premium (same-day in major cities); dense private courier ecosystem (Aramex, DHL, FedEx, Fetchr, Quiqup) plus same-day app delivery (Talabat, Noon) across the highly urbanised Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Sharjah corridor with real-time tracking as standard. excellent = same/next-day widely available in the cities where residents live. Note: historic reliance on PO boxes and the absence of a universal street-address system mean to-door courier delivery depends on GPS/phone contact rather than postal addresses.
02International delivery easea nivel de paísMinor friction7.0
Qué mide esto
Ease of receiving goods from abroad. seamless = major international carriers deliver door-to-door, meaningful duty-free de-minimis threshold, customs clearance predictable in days; minor-friction = carriers present but low de-minimis, extra paperwork or routine delays; significant-friction = frequent customs holds, high brokerage fees, some marketplaces refuse to ship; unreliable = parcels regularly lost or blocked, informal import channels dominate. De-minimis thresholds and clearance rules from the national customs authority (official source, cite the regulation); carrier presence from carriers' official pages.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Major international carriers (DHL, Aramex, FedEx, UPS) deliver door-to-door in ~2–5 days. Friction: the courier duty-free de minimis is low — AED 300 in Dubai since 1 Jan 2023 (Customs Notice 05/2022; Abu Dhabi AED 1,000), above which 5% customs duty applies, and 5% VAT is charged on most imported goods regardless of value. Predictable but not duty-free on typical online orders → minor-friction.
03Internet speeda nivel de país37,7Mbps, median fixed download3.5
Qué mide esto
Median fixed-broadband download speed over the trailing 6 months from M-Lab NDT open data (CC0), aggregated at country or city level. Not comparable with Ookla figures (different test methodology) — do not mix sources within this criterion.
Cuanto más alto, mejorMbps, median fixed downloadse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Datos abiertos
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for the United Arab Emirates
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Median of daily country download medians in M-Lab's public stats API for 2024 (86 days available, ~69,784 tests) = 37.7 Mbps. The 2024 file is partial (M-Lab had not published a full 2024/2025 aggregate at verification); the last complete year, 2023 (343 days, ~164,816 tests), had a median of 26.3 Mbps.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is single-stream and reads far below Ookla-style figures — the UAE's Ookla median is ~400+ Mbps thanks to near-universal fibre; comparable only within this criterion, not with Ookla.
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Sanidad
Lo que cuesta un seguro médico privado completo.
01Private healthcare costa nivel de país1630USD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-old6.9
Qué mide esto
Median of at least three publicly quoted annual premiums for comprehensive private medical insurance (outpatient + inpatient, ~$100k coverage, small deductible) for a healthy 35-year-old resident foreigner, from local and international insurers. Method field lists the insurers quoted.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorUSD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-oldse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Health insurance is mandatory for residence-visa holders (Abu Dhabi and Dubai; extending to the other emirates from 2025). The official basic mandatory package is only ~AED 320/yr but is NOT comprehensive. Comprehensive plans covering both outpatient and inpatient care for a healthy ~35-year-old run roughly AED 3,000–7,000/yr at the mid tier (premium/worldwide plans AED 8,000–20,000+). Midpoint of the comprehensive mid tier ≈ AED 6,000/yr ≈ USD 1,633 at the 3.6725 AED/USD peg (range ≈ USD 815–1,900 mid tier). Curated market midpoint from public UAE insurance-market pricing summaries; premiums are quoted on request per applicant, not from a single public engine quote.
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Dinero y cripto
Normas sobre cripto y con qué libertad se mueve el dinero personal.
01Crypto regulationa nivel de paísLegal friendly10.0
Qué mide esto
Own classification of the legal status of holding, trading and cashing out cryptocurrency for individuals: legal-friendly (legal with clear, favourable rules or explicit tax exemptions), legal-regulated (legal under standard licensing/AML and taxation), restricted (partial bans: payments or banking access prohibited), banned (holding/trading prohibited). Classified from national regulators' and central banks' official positions.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 180 días
Fuente oficial
UAE Government portal (u.ae) — Regulation of digital/virtual assets (SCA, VARA, Central Bank)
- Datos a fecha de
- 15 nov 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Holding and trading virtual assets by individuals is legal and regulated: the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA, Cabinet Resolution 111/2022) supervises VASPs nationwide, with Dubai's VARA (Law 4/2022) licensing providers in Dubai (excl. DIFC), and ADGM/DIFC running their own frameworks. Classified legal-friendly because of explicit favourable tax treatment: no personal income tax on individual crypto gains, and the transfer/conversion of virtual assets is VAT-exempt (Cabinet Decision 100/2024, retrospective to 1 Jan 2018). VARA/SCA agreed a unified supervisory framework in 2025.
02Financial control levela nivel de paísLow10.0
Qué mide esto
Own composite of state control over personal money flows: currency/capital controls (IMF AREAER), restrictions on foreign accounts and transfers, mandatory income declaration scope for residents, cash payment limits, banking access for foreigners. Low = free movement of personal funds and easy non-resident banking; very-high = strict capital controls and pervasive reporting. Method field on each value lists the inputs used.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: the dirham is fully convertible and pegged to the USD at 3.6725 (held since 1997), maintained by the CBUAE; the UAE imposes no capital or currency controls on personal fund movement; no personal income tax and therefore no personal income declaration for residents; no domestic FBAR-style foreign-account disclosure obligation on individuals; non-residents and foreigners can open bank accounts (subject to standard KYC/AML). Standard AML and CRS reporting via banks applies. Low = free movement of personal funds and accessible banking.
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Idioma
Hasta dónde llega el inglés en la vida diaria y en los trámites.
01English proficiencya nivel de paísHigh7.0
Qué mide esto
Own banding of how far English gets a resident in daily life (government offices, healthcare, housing, services). Informed by EF EPI band (research source, cited with attribution, not republished) plus official language status and service-sector realities. Values are our bands, not EF scores.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Estudio
EF EPI 2025 (UAE score 487, rank 72 — Moderate band)
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band. EF EPI places the UAE population in the Moderate band (score 487, rank 72; Dubai city 509), but that population-wide index is pulled down by a very large lower-proficiency labour-migrant workforce. For a foreign resident's daily life, English is the de facto lingua franca of business, retail, healthcare, banking and most government e-services in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, so practical usability is high — hence the 'high' band over the EF 'Moderate' population score. Attribution: EF Education First.
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Educación
Opciones de colegios internacionales para familias.
01International schools30accredited international schools, count10.0
Qué mide esto
Count of international schools in the metro area accredited by or member of IB, CIS, COBIS, or an equivalent national-curriculum-abroad body (verified against the accreditor's public registry, not aggregator sites).
Cuanto más alto, mejoraccredited international schools, countse vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Estudio
International Baccalaureate — Find an IB World School directory (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Count of authorised IB World Schools in Dubai. The IB Find-an-IB-School directory (the accreditor's own registry) and directory-backed listings consistently show more than 30 authorised IB World Schools in Dubai; recorded as 30 as a conservative floor (candidate/pending schools excluded). This is the IB-authorised subset only: Dubai additionally has a very large number of Cambridge International (CAIE) and US/American-accredited schools among its ~227 KHDA-registered private schools, so the true accredited-international total under IB + Cambridge + US + others is materially higher. Recorded as the IB-verified floor pending a full cross-accreditor count. The IB directory returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching at verification, so the exact directory count was corroborated via directory-backed listings rather than a direct scrape.
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Demografía
Quién más vive aquí: el porcentaje de residentes extranjeros y las mayores comunidades nacionales, según estadísticas oficiales.
Openness to foreignersa nivel de paísAbiertaGallup MAI 5,79/9 · 2016
Qué mide esto
How accepting the resident population is of migrants and foreigners — the inverse of xenophobia, a real concern for someone relocating. Our own five-band reading (very-open / open / moderate / reserved / low) informed primarily by the Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index (0–9 scale: three questions on migrants living in the country, becoming neighbours, and marrying into the family; 2019 wave), cross-checked where available with the World Values Survey wave 7 / European Values Study 2017 question on whether people would not want immigrants or foreign workers as neighbours (a higher share = more hostile). Banding guide against the Gallup 0–9 score: ≥7.0 very-open, 5.5–7.0 open, 4.0–5.5 moderate, 2.5–4.0 reserved, below 2.5 low (the 2019 global average of 5.21 sits in 'moderate'). Country level only: no credible city-level survey of attitudes to foreigners exists, so on city pages the country reading is shown as country context. Gallup is a research source cited with attribution, not republished in bulk; the raw index score/year and any cross-check figure are carried inside each value. Value shape: { band, gallupMai?, gallupYear?, unwantedNeighborPct?, unwantedNeighborSource? }. Display-only: attitudinal, survey-based and ~2019 vintage, so it is shown as honest context and never folded into the composite score.
Datos de referencia—se vuelve a verificar cada 1825 días
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 23 ago 2017
- Verificado
- 15 jul 2026
- Notas
- Gallup MAI 5.79/9 (2016/2017 wave) — moderately above the global average on personal acceptance, despite migrants being ~88% of residents; on Gallup’s separate community measure (“good place for migrants to live”) the UAE ranked 6th worldwide (87%, 2018). Band: open.
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Inputs: the last official UAE census split (mofa.gov.ae, 2010) recorded non-nationals at ~89% of the population (7.32m of 8.26m residents); the UAE has published no newer official nationals-vs-non-nationals split, and mainstream 2025 estimates place the expatriate share at ~88%. Computation: taken directly as the 'foreign nationals as a share of residents' percentage — no re-weighting applied — rounded to 88, favouring the current mainstream estimate over the stale 2010 census figure. Basis: foreign nationals as a share of total residents (people actually living in the UAE, which for the UAE is overwhelmingly residence-visa holders). To be replaced with an official figure if/when a new census is released.
- Notas
- The UAE does not publish a current official split of nationals vs non-nationals, so this is an estimate, not a registered figure. Display-only indicator.
Mayores comunidades de la población total
UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs — facts & figures (largest communities) + widely reported estimates
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- The UAE does not publish official nationality-by-citizenship population statistics; mofa.gov.ae states the order of the largest communities (Indians, then Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, other Asians, Europeans, Africans). Shares are widely reported mainstream estimates (Emiratis ~11.5%; Indians ~38%; Pakistanis ~17%; Bangladeshis ~7%), grouped and rounded, with the remainder aggregated. Estimates, not an official register — flagged for replacement by census data. Display-only indicator.
01Indian38%
02Other (Filipino, Egyptian, other Arab, Western, other Asian & African)26,5%
03Pakistani17%
04Emirati (UAE nationals)11,5%
05Bangladeshi7%
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Cómo puedes quedarte
Cómo puedes entrar y quedarte legalmente. Se aplican en todo United Arab Emirates.
Todos los requisitos y filtro por nacionalidad- 01Virtual work (remote work) residence visaVisado de nómada digitalTodas las nacionalidadesingresos ≥ 3500 USD/monthPassport valid for at least six months1 año +
- 02Green visa — freelancer / self-employedPermiso para autónomosTodas las nacionalidadesingresos ≥ 360.000 AED/yearA freelance / self-employment work permit from the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MOHRE) or a free zone5 años +
- 03Golden visa — 10-year residence (investor / specialised talent)Visado de negociosTodas las nacionalidadesReal-estate investor route: own UAE property worth at least AED 2,000,000 (off-plan, mortgaged and combined title deeds now qualify; for a mortgaged purchase the investor's equity outside the mortgage must reach AED 2,000,000)10 años +
- 04Residence via company ownership / investor (Green investor visa)Visado de negociosTodas las nacionalidadesRegister a company — a free-zone company (many zones offer freelancer/solo packages) or a mainland LLC (100% foreign ownership permitted for most activities)5 años +
- 05Visa-free entry (90 days / 180)Estancia sin visadoEU citizens, US citizens, UK citizensPassport of an eligible visa-waiver country (EU/EEA states, UK, US and many others), valid at least six months3 meses
- 06Visa on arrival (30 days)Estancia sin visadoUkrainian citizensPassport of a nationality eligible for a UAE visa on arrival, valid at least six months1 mes
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Lo que pagarías en impuestos
Los regímenes fiscales entre los que puede elegir un autónomo. Las normas son nacionales: las mismas en todo United Arab Emirates.
Regímenes completos y calculadora- 01Natural person (self-employed) — 0% up to AED 375k, 9% aboveprogressive on profit (allowance 375,000): 9% above0.0%de carga con 60 000 €
- 02Qualifying Free Zone Person — 0% on qualifying income0% of profit0.0%de carga con 60 000 €
- 03Mainland company / standard Corporate Tax — 0% up to AED 375k, 9% aboveprogressive on profit (allowance 375,000): 9% above0.0%de carga con 60 000 €
Mira cuánto te quedaría
Tus ingresos frente a los regímenes fiscales reales de United Arab Emirates, con el mismo motor que la calculadora completa.
- 1 Natural person (self-employed) — 0% up to AED 375k, 9% above60.000 EURneto/año0.0 % de carga
- 2 Qualifying Free Zone Person — 0% on qualifying income60.000 EURneto/año0.0 % de carga
- 3 Mainland company / standard Corporate Tax — 0% up to AED 375k, 9% above60.000 EURneto/año0.0 % de carga
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¿Para quién es Dubai?
El mismo lugar se lee distinto según por qué te mudes. Cada perspectiva reúne los datos que más importan para ese plan, con sus fuentes y las contrapartidas dichas sin rodeos.
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Freelancer tax burden0%
SettleMetric tax engine over official UAE rules (u.ae / Ministry of Finance)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 jun 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme ae-natural-person-0-9 at €60,000 revenue = AED 252,088 (ECB/CBUAE 4.201464 AED/EUR). No personal income tax on individuals (u.ae). Corporate Tax reaches a natural person only above AED 1,000,000 turnover (Cabinet Decision 49/2023) — far above €60k — and even in scope the first AED 375,000 of profit is 0%. No mandatory social contributions for foreign nationals. Effective income-tax + social burden = 0.0%. A freelance/self-employment permit fee (MOHRE ≈ AED 1,200–2,500/yr; free zones ≈ AED 5,500–25,000/yr) is a business-licence cost, not a tax, so it is excluded from this burden figure.
English proficiencyHigh
EF EPI 2025 (UAE score 487, rank 72 — Moderate band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band. EF EPI places the UAE population in the Moderate band (score 487, rank 72; Dubai city 509), but that population-wide index is pulled down by a very large lower-proficiency labour-migrant workforce. For a foreign resident's daily life, English is the de facto lingua franca of business, retail, healthcare, banking and most government e-services in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, so practical usability is high — hence the 'high' band over the EF 'Moderate' population score. Attribution: EF Education First.
Cost of living (single, excl. rent)$840/mo
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Built as a bottom-up single-person monthly basket (excl. rent), each line from a real source, converted at the CBUAE peg 3.6725 AED/USD (used elsewhere in this file for consistency). Inputs (AED/mo): groceries 950 (Carrefour UAE shelf prices — e.g. fresh milk 1L 4.99, eggs 30pcs 13.99–22.49, chicken 1kg ~23, basmati rice 5kg ~13 — scaled to a single-person cook-at-home basket, consistent with the widely reported AED 800–1,200 single grocery range); restaurants/eating out 500; communications 350 (etisalat/du home internet + mobile); recreation/culture 300; transport 230 (RTA Dubai Nol Silver 2-zone monthly pass, official rta.ae); utilities 186 (DEWA official residential slab: electricity ~500 kWh × (0.23 + 0.06 fuel surcharge) AED/kWh + water ~6 m³ × (0.77 + 1.10) AED/m³ + misc/sewerage); household goods & toiletries 150; clothing (amortised) 150; miscellaneous 150; health out-of-pocket 120. Total ≈ AED 3,086/mo = USD 840 at 3.6725. Cross-check (upper bound): World Bank national accounts give UAE households final consumption USD 234.51bn / 10,483,751 population (2023) = USD 1,864/mo per capita all-in; removing an ~30% shelter (rent/imputed-rent) share leaves ≈ USD 1,305/mo non-rent — but that per-capita MEAN is pulled up by a wealthy Emirati/high-earner minority, so it overstates a typical single remote worker; the bottom-up basket (USD 840) is reported to stay comparable with the one-person-household figures used for Poland/Slovakia. Curated: the ideal single official source (FCSC/DSC household budget survey category basket, and the MoET Essential Goods Prices Platform) is either unpublished in machine-readable form or a live tool that was down at verification, so this is a reproducible basket, not a single national statistic. National-level; Dubai runs higher than Abu Dhabi/Sharjah.
Domestic delivery qualityExcellent
Emirates Post (official universal postal operator) — domestic services + major carrier networks
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Emirates Post offers Domestic Express (1–2 business days) and Domestic Premium (same-day in major cities); dense private courier ecosystem (Aramex, DHL, FedEx, Fetchr, Quiqup) plus same-day app delivery (Talabat, Noon) across the highly urbanised Dubai/Abu Dhabi/Sharjah corridor with real-time tracking as standard. excellent = same/next-day widely available in the cities where residents live. Note: historic reliance on PO boxes and the absence of a universal street-address system mean to-door courier delivery depends on GPS/phone contact rather than postal addresses.
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Internet speed38 Mbps
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for the United Arab Emirates
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Median of daily country download medians in M-Lab's public stats API for 2024 (86 days available, ~69,784 tests) = 37.7 Mbps. The 2024 file is partial (M-Lab had not published a full 2024/2025 aggregate at verification); the last complete year, 2023 (343 days, ~164,816 tests), had a median of 26.3 Mbps.
- Notas
- M-Lab NDT is single-stream and reads far below Ookla-style figures — the UAE's Ookla median is ~400+ Mbps thanks to near-universal fibre; comparable only within this criterion, not with Ookla.
Mudarse con pareja e hijos en edad escolar.
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International schools30
International Baccalaureate — Find an IB World School directory (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Count of authorised IB World Schools in Dubai. The IB Find-an-IB-School directory (the accreditor's own registry) and directory-backed listings consistently show more than 30 authorised IB World Schools in Dubai; recorded as 30 as a conservative floor (candidate/pending schools excluded). This is the IB-authorised subset only: Dubai additionally has a very large number of Cambridge International (CAIE) and US/American-accredited schools among its ~227 KHDA-registered private schools, so the true accredited-international total under IB + Cambridge + US + others is materially higher. Recorded as the IB-verified floor pending a full cross-accreditor count. The IB directory returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching at verification, so the exact directory count was corroborated via directory-backed listings rather than a direct scrape.
Homicide rate0,69/100k
World Bank (UNODC series) — Intentional homicides per 100,000, United Arab Emirates
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2022
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Latest non-null year is 2022 (0.693 per 100k); 2023 is not yet published. Prior years: 2021 = 0.45, 2020 = 0.69, 2019 = 0.68. One of the lowest homicide rates in the world.
Private healthcare cost$1630/yr
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Health insurance is mandatory for residence-visa holders (Abu Dhabi and Dubai; extending to the other emirates from 2025). The official basic mandatory package is only ~AED 320/yr but is NOT comprehensive. Comprehensive plans covering both outpatient and inpatient care for a healthy ~35-year-old run roughly AED 3,000–7,000/yr at the mid tier (premium/worldwide plans AED 8,000–20,000+). Midpoint of the comprehensive mid tier ≈ AED 6,000/yr ≈ USD 1,633 at the 3.6725 AED/USD peg (range ≈ USD 815–1,900 mid tier). Curated market midpoint from public UAE insurance-market pricing summaries; premiums are quoted on request per applicant, not from a single public engine quote.
Air quality (PM2.5)sin datos verificados
WHO Ambient Air Quality Database (V8.0, June 2026) + WHO GHO SDGPM25 modelled estimates
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- No verified Dubai city-measured annual-mean PM2.5 recorded. The WHO Ambient Air Quality Database (V8.0) is the correct source for a city PM2.5 value but is distributed only as a downloadable Excel; the specific Dubai row was not extractable at verification. The only accessible figure is a national MODELLED estimate (WHO GHO SDGPM25 / IHME GBD 2023), which puts the UAE annual-mean PM2.5 at roughly 34 µg/m³ nationally (urban areas ~35–37 µg/m³) for 2023 — about 7× the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³, driven mainly by desert dust. That is a country-level modelled number, not a Dubai station measurement, so it is not recorded as the city value. Aggregator sites (IQAir, aqi.in) are excluded as forbidden/non-official. To be replaced with the Dubai row from the WHO Ambient DB Excel or a Dubai Municipality monitoring-network annual mean in a later pass.
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Crypto regulationLegal friendly
UAE Government portal (u.ae) — Regulation of digital/virtual assets (SCA, VARA, Central Bank)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 15 nov 2024
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Holding and trading virtual assets by individuals is legal and regulated: the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA, Cabinet Resolution 111/2022) supervises VASPs nationwide, with Dubai's VARA (Law 4/2022) licensing providers in Dubai (excl. DIFC), and ADGM/DIFC running their own frameworks. Classified legal-friendly because of explicit favourable tax treatment: no personal income tax on individual crypto gains, and the transfer/conversion of virtual assets is VAT-exempt (Cabinet Decision 100/2024, retrospective to 1 Jan 2018). VARA/SCA agreed a unified supervisory framework in 2025.
Financial control levelLow
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: the dirham is fully convertible and pegged to the USD at 3.6725 (held since 1997), maintained by the CBUAE; the UAE imposes no capital or currency controls on personal fund movement; no personal income tax and therefore no personal income declaration for residents; no domestic FBAR-style foreign-account disclosure obligation on individuals; non-residents and foreigners can open bank accounts (subject to standard KYC/AML). Standard AML and CRS reporting via banks applies. Low = free movement of personal funds and accessible banking.
Freelancer tax burden0%
SettleMetric tax engine over official UAE rules (u.ae / Ministry of Finance)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 jun 2023
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme ae-natural-person-0-9 at €60,000 revenue = AED 252,088 (ECB/CBUAE 4.201464 AED/EUR). No personal income tax on individuals (u.ae). Corporate Tax reaches a natural person only above AED 1,000,000 turnover (Cabinet Decision 49/2023) — far above €60k — and even in scope the first AED 375,000 of profit is 0%. No mandatory social contributions for foreign nationals. Effective income-tax + social burden = 0.0%. A freelance/self-employment permit fee (MOHRE ≈ AED 1,200–2,500/yr; free zones ≈ AED 5,500–25,000/yr) is a business-licence cost, not a tax, so it is excluded from this burden figure.
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Homicide rate0,69/100k
World Bank (UNODC series) — Intentional homicides per 100,000, United Arab Emirates
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2022
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- Latest non-null year is 2022 (0.693 per 100k); 2023 is not yet published. Prior years: 2021 = 0.45, 2020 = 0.69, 2019 = 0.68. One of the lowest homicide rates in the world.
Cost of living (single, excl. rent)$840/mo
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Built as a bottom-up single-person monthly basket (excl. rent), each line from a real source, converted at the CBUAE peg 3.6725 AED/USD (used elsewhere in this file for consistency). Inputs (AED/mo): groceries 950 (Carrefour UAE shelf prices — e.g. fresh milk 1L 4.99, eggs 30pcs 13.99–22.49, chicken 1kg ~23, basmati rice 5kg ~13 — scaled to a single-person cook-at-home basket, consistent with the widely reported AED 800–1,200 single grocery range); restaurants/eating out 500; communications 350 (etisalat/du home internet + mobile); recreation/culture 300; transport 230 (RTA Dubai Nol Silver 2-zone monthly pass, official rta.ae); utilities 186 (DEWA official residential slab: electricity ~500 kWh × (0.23 + 0.06 fuel surcharge) AED/kWh + water ~6 m³ × (0.77 + 1.10) AED/m³ + misc/sewerage); household goods & toiletries 150; clothing (amortised) 150; miscellaneous 150; health out-of-pocket 120. Total ≈ AED 3,086/mo = USD 840 at 3.6725. Cross-check (upper bound): World Bank national accounts give UAE households final consumption USD 234.51bn / 10,483,751 population (2023) = USD 1,864/mo per capita all-in; removing an ~30% shelter (rent/imputed-rent) share leaves ≈ USD 1,305/mo non-rent — but that per-capita MEAN is pulled up by a wealthy Emirati/high-earner minority, so it overstates a typical single remote worker; the bottom-up basket (USD 840) is reported to stay comparable with the one-person-household figures used for Poland/Slovakia. Curated: the ideal single official source (FCSC/DSC household budget survey category basket, and the MoET Essential Goods Prices Platform) is either unpublished in machine-readable form or a live tool that was down at verification, so this is a reproducible basket, not a single national statistic. National-level; Dubai runs higher than Abu Dhabi/Sharjah.
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Climate comfort3/12 mo
SettleMetric computation over climate-normals (NOAA/WMO — Dubai Intl Airport, WMO 41194)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Método
- Months with mean daily max 15–28°C and precipitation < 150mm: Jan (24.4°C), Feb (26.1°C), Dec (26.5°C) = 3. March misses at 28.9°C; April–November are all above 28°C (up to ~42°C). Precipitation never limits (max monthly ~22mm).
Air quality (PM2.5)sin datos verificados
WHO Ambient Air Quality Database (V8.0, June 2026) + WHO GHO SDGPM25 modelled estimates
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 4 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 4 jul 2026
- Notas
- No verified Dubai city-measured annual-mean PM2.5 recorded. The WHO Ambient Air Quality Database (V8.0) is the correct source for a city PM2.5 value but is distributed only as a downloadable Excel; the specific Dubai row was not extractable at verification. The only accessible figure is a national MODELLED estimate (WHO GHO SDGPM25 / IHME GBD 2023), which puts the UAE annual-mean PM2.5 at roughly 34 µg/m³ nationally (urban areas ~35–37 µg/m³) for 2023 — about 7× the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³, driven mainly by desert dust. That is a country-level modelled number, not a Dubai station measurement, so it is not recorded as the city value. Aggregator sites (IQAir, aqi.in) are excluded as forbidden/non-official. To be replaced with the Dubai row from the WHO Ambient DB Excel or a Dubai Municipality monitoring-network annual mean in a later pass.
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