3.9%
Unemployment rate
Al Buraymi sits 6 of 11 here, and on this table the lower number is the better one.
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Al Buraymi · Topic file
Can Al Buraymi 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 Al Buraymi, the honest read comes down to unemployment rate and establishments.
12,069
Establishments
That puts Al Buraymi at 9 of 11 on the official table.
33,049
Workers in establishments
That puts Al Buraymi at 9 of 11 on the official table.
The numbers
Where Al Buraymi 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 Al Buraymi 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
- Al Buraymi is showing 3.9% on unemployment rate. Al Buraymi sits 6 of 11 here, and on this table the lower number is the better one.
- Al Buraymi is showing 12,069 on establishments. That puts Al Buraymi at 9 of 11 on the official table.
- Al Buraymi is showing 33,049 on workers in establishments. 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. 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 Al Buraymi is being measured against
The jobs and businesses that show whether the governorate has a working economy, or just a project list.
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.
Al Buraymi topic file
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
Tourism and place economy
Hotels, occupancy, and whether the place is becoming a real destination or just adding rooms.
Al Buraymi 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.
Al Buraymi topic file
Infrastructure and utilities
Roads, water and the quiet base layer that usually decides whether any of the rest of it actually works.