5.3%
Unemployment rate
Khasab sits 10 of 11 here, and on this table the lower number is the better one.
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Khasab · Topic file
Can Khasab 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 Khasab, the honest read comes down to unemployment rate and establishments.
3,183
Establishments
That puts Khasab at 11 of 11 on the official table.
10,137
Workers in establishments
That puts Khasab at 11 of 11 on the official table.
The numbers
Where Khasab 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 Khasab 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
- Khasab is showing 5.3% on unemployment rate. Khasab sits 10 of 11 here, and on this table the lower number is the better one.
- Khasab is showing 3,183 on establishments. That puts Khasab at 11 of 11 on the official table.
- Khasab is showing 10,137 on workers in establishments. That puts Khasab at 11 of 11 on the official table.
- MOHUP positions Musandam around eco-tourism, fisheries, agriculture, quarrying and its unique geographic position. 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 Khasab is being measured against
The jobs and businesses that show whether the governorate has a working economy, or just a project list.
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
Tourism and place economy
Hotels, occupancy, and whether the place is becoming a real destination or just adding rooms.
Musandam 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.
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.