Mohammed bin Rashid reviews the statistical mural of the UAE

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, viewed the statistical mural of the UAE, which represents one of the most important holdings of the statistical exhibition organized by the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics, during the annual meetings of the UAE government 2025, and reflects a national experience that embodies the statistics process in the UAE since the seventies, with the beginning of the phase of building the federal state institutions until the present decade.
The mural includes a timeline of statistical decades from the seventies to the current and next decade, and lists the most important strategic achievements in each decade, starting with the seventies, which witnessed the actual beginning of statistical work in the UAE, where the first population census was carried out in 1975, becoming a pivotal step for building a national system to support planning and building the modern state, so that numbers become a tool for establishment and the beginning of drawing the features of development.
In the space dedicated to the 1980s, the mural highlights the idea of ​​shifting from numbers to a comprehensive national system, and establishing an integrated national statistical system that supports evidence-based urban and economic planning, as data has become a basis for development decisions in various sectors.
The mural dealt with the 1990s, within the framework of a fundamental idea based on “data…the cornerstone of development,” as the comprehensive and balanced development approach was established in this era, and the state began expanding local statistical work to cover population and establishments, which made data the cornerstone of development.
Regarding the decade of the 2000s, the mural focuses on the reality of enhancing statistical harmony between federal and local authorities and unifying national methodologies in line with international standards, as that period represented the beginning of the phase of institutional coordination between statistics centers to build a unified vision, and the emergence of the concept of competitiveness in the state’s development agenda.
The mural in the space dedicated to the 1920s highlights the fact that the UAE is at the forefront of countries that combined statistics and competitiveness into one entity, becoming at the forefront of global competitiveness indicators, as it established this stage to link numbers to performance and strategic planning through the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority.
The area allocated in the mural from the year 2020 to the year 2030 highlights the phase of transition from the present to the future, and the direction of statistical work towards smart transformation and comprehensive digitization, through the development of an integrated and smart statistical system that analyses, predicts and directs data-based decisions, as a stage from the field to smart statistics, where data turns into a force that creates the future, and participates in the global statistical scene through the UAE’s membership in the United Nations Statistical Commission for the period (2025-2028).
The exhibition, which is organized under the slogan (50 years of UAE numbers), and includes the statistics process in the UAE, includes a historical series of statistical reports and collections from the establishment of the Ministry of Planning until the establishment of the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics, which includes many statistical indicators covering various vital sectors, and the latest releases of the “Unified UAE Numbers” report, which includes the latest data in various sectors for the UAE for the year 2025, in addition to visual content that includes a historical video of statistics in the UAE, documenting the first population census in the country, and many important events and occasions. documented, as well as the unified Emirates Numbers Platform, which represents the unified national platform for statistics and data in the country and is supported by artificial intelligence.