9,269
Students in schools
That puts Khasab at 11 of 11 on the official table.
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Khasab · Topic file
Can Khasab 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 Khasab, the honest read comes down to students in schools and hospital beds.
158
Hospital beds
That puts Khasab at 10 of 11 on the official table.
The numbers
Where Khasab 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 Khasab 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
- Khasab is showing 9,269 on students in schools. That puts Khasab at 11 of 11 on the official table.
- Khasab is showing 158 on hospital beds. That puts Khasab at 10 of 11 on the official table.
- MOHUP positions Musandam around eco-tourism, fisheries, agriculture, quarrying and its unique geographic position. A bigger regional role also means stronger schools and clinics closer to where people actually live.
Why this file matters
The strategy Khasab is being measured against
Whether schools and hospitals are keeping up — the simplest read on whether people can build a life here.
MOHUP positions Musandam around eco-tourism, fisheries, agriculture, quarrying and its unique geographic position. The spatial strategy emphasises controlled development, functional zoning and the protection of natural beauty as the basis of future growth.
- Tourism is explicitly framed as the main driver of Musandam's future economy.
- The strategy still expects supporting roles from fisheries, agriculture, trade and quarrying rather than a one-sector story.
- The official planning approach is unusually spatially strict because land claiming, ecological protection and phased master plans all matter here.
Related topic files
Five more ways into the Musandam 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.
Musandam topic file
Capital deployment
How much money is actually being committed, and whether the property market is picking up the signal.
Musandam 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.
Musandam topic file
Jobs and enterprise
The jobs and businesses that show whether the governorate has a working economy, or just a project list.
Musandam topic file
Tourism and place economy
Hotels, occupancy, and whether the place is becoming a real destination or just adding rooms.
Musandam topic file
Infrastructure and utilities
Roads, water and the quiet base layer that usually decides whether any of the rest of it actually works.