23,530
Students in schools
That puts Al Buraymi at 9 of 11 on the official table.
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Al Buraymi · Topic file
Can Al Buraymi carry stronger schools, clinics and everyday services?
The story is not only about investment. It is also about whether families can build their lives — schooling, healthcare, daily services — without having to default back to Muscat. For Al Buraymi, the honest read comes down to students in schools and hospital beds.
162
Hospital beds
That puts Al Buraymi at 9 of 11 on the official table.
The numbers
Where Al Buraymi stands today, chart by chart
Students in schools
Total students in schools by governorate in the 2025/2026 academic year.
NCSI Statistical Year Book 2026, Schools, Classrooms, Students and Teachers by Governorate (grand total table).
Hospital beds
Total government and private hospital beds by governorate in 2025.
NCSI Statistical Year Book 2026, No. Of Government & Private Sectors Hospitals & Health Units Distributed by Governorates and Number of Bed.
The trend over time
How Al Buraymi got here
Students in schools
How many children the governorate's schools are actually carrying each academic year — the simplest stand-in for how much pressure the local education system is under.
2024/25 and 2025/26 totals from the Schools, Classrooms, Students and Teachers by Governorate tables in Statistical Year Books 2025 and 2026.
These are academic-year counts, not calendar years.
Hospital beds
Hospital beds in the governorate, public and private combined. A blunt but useful read on how deep the local health system actually is.
2024 and 2025 values from Table 2-17, Statistical Year Books 2025 and 2026. Totals here cover government and private hospital beds only — health-centre beds are not added in.
Reading the charts
What the latest tables are really saying
- Al Buraymi is showing 23,530 on students in schools. That puts Al Buraymi at 9 of 11 on the official table.
- Al Buraymi is showing 162 on hospital beds. That puts Al Buraymi at 9 of 11 on the official table.
- The MOHUP strategy frames Al Buraymi around self-sufficiency, cross-border opportunity, green technology, and food-security-linked growth. A bigger regional role also means stronger schools and clinics closer to where people actually live.
Why this file matters
The strategy Al Buraymi is being measured against
Whether schools and hospitals are keeping up — the simplest read on whether people can build a life here.
The MOHUP strategy frames Al Buraymi around self-sufficiency, cross-border opportunity, green technology, and food-security-linked growth. Al Buraymi city is the main anchor, while Mahadah and As Sunaynah are meant to support mining, livestock, dairy and tourism activity.
- The governorate is meant to use its position next to neighboring markets as a structural advantage.
- Green technology is not peripheral in the official story; it is treated as a local differentiator and employment anchor.
- Secondary centres are expected to carry distinct roles in mining, dairy, livestock and desert tourism.
Related topic files
Five more ways into the Al Buraymi 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.
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Capital deployment
How much money is actually being committed, and whether the property market is picking up the signal.
Al Buraymi 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.
Al Buraymi topic file
Jobs and enterprise
The jobs and businesses that show whether the governorate has a working economy, or just a project list.
Al Buraymi topic file
Tourism and place economy
Hotels, occupancy, and whether the place is becoming a real destination or just adding rooms.
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Infrastructure and utilities
Roads, water and the quiet base layer that usually decides whether any of the rest of it actually works.