5.6%
Unemployment rate
Ibri sits 11 of 11 here, and on this table the lower number is the better one.
Back to Adh Dhahirah
Ibri · Topic file
Can Ibri turn projects into real jobs and real firms?
If the strategy does not eventually show up in jobs, firms and a thicker base of local businesses, it is not really a strategy yet — it is still a slide. For Ibri, the honest read comes down to unemployment rate and establishments.
14,306
Establishments
That puts Ibri at 8 of 11 on the official table.
37,914
Workers in establishments
That puts Ibri at 8 of 11 on the official table.
The numbers
Where Ibri stands today, chart by chart
Unemployment rate
Total unemployment rate by governorate in 2025.
NCSI Statistical Year Book 2026, Table 25-4.
Establishments
Number of establishments by governorate in 2025.
NCSI Statistical Year Book 2026, Table 12-9.
Workers in establishments
Workers attached to governorate establishments in 2025.
NCSI Statistical Year Book 2026, Table 12-9.
The trend over time
How Ibri got here
Unemployment rate
How unemployment has moved at the governorate level. The machine-readable open data runs through 2021; the 2024 and 2025 points are pulled from the printed yearbooks.
2020–2021 from the NCSI open-data unemployment layer (by governorate). 2024 and 2025 from Table 25-4 of the Statistical Year Books 2025 and 2026.
Establishments
How many businesses are actually registered in the governorate. A simple way to see whether the local business base is thickening or thinning.
2023 and 2024: Table 12-9, Statistical Year Book 2025 (Issue 53). 2025: Table 12-9, Statistical Year Book 2026 (Issue 54).
Reading the charts
What the latest tables are really saying
- Ibri is showing 5.6% on unemployment rate. Ibri sits 11 of 11 here, and on this table the lower number is the better one.
- Ibri is showing 14,306 on establishments. That puts Ibri at 8 of 11 on the official table.
- Ibri is showing 37,914 on workers in establishments. That puts Ibri at 8 of 11 on the official table.
- MOHUP frames Adh Dhahirah around high-value production, engineering industries, logistics, food manufacturing, advanced agriculture and renewable energy, with Ibri acting as the main urban and knowledge anchor. Without a thicker base of firms and a healthier job market, the rest is just a description on a slide.
Why this file matters
The strategy Ibri is being measured against
The jobs and businesses that show whether the governorate has a working economy, or just a project list.
MOHUP frames Adh Dhahirah around high-value production, engineering industries, logistics, food manufacturing, advanced agriculture and renewable energy, with Ibri acting as the main urban and knowledge anchor.
- Ibri, Dank and Yanqul are meant to develop complementary economic roles rather than compete as isolated settlements.
- Higher education, an incubator cluster and a tech-park logic are part of the official production story here.
- Renewable energy, especially solar, is treated as a serious economic advantage for the governorate.
Related topic files
Five more ways into the Adh Dhahirah execution map
These linked files cover the other live tests in the same governorate, so the numbers on capital, jobs, services, tourism, utilities, and urban buildout can be read together instead of in isolation.
Adh Dhahirah topic file
Capital deployment
How much money is actually being committed, and whether the property market is picking up the signal.
Adh Dhahirah topic file
Urban buildout and housing
Population, permits and whether the place is actually being built fast enough for the role it has been handed.
Adh Dhahirah topic file
Tourism and place economy
Hotels, occupancy, and whether the place is becoming a real destination or just adding rooms.
Adh Dhahirah topic file
Human capability and essential services
Whether schools and hospitals are keeping up — the simplest read on whether people can build a life here.
Adh Dhahirah topic file
Infrastructure and utilities
Roads, water and the quiet base layer that usually decides whether any of the rest of it actually works.