Mohammed bin Rashid views the statistical mural of the Emirates

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 collections 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 federal state institutions until the current decade.

The mural includes a timeline of statistical decades from the seventies to the current and next decades, 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, and the numbers are a tool for establishing and beginning to chart 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 decade of the nineties within the framework of a fundamental idea based on “data…the cornerstone of development.” In this era, the comprehensive and balanced development approach was established, and the state began to expand local statistical work to cover population and establishments, which made data the cornerstone of development. With regard to 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 stage of institutional coordination between statistical centers to build a unified vision. 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.”

In the mural, the space allocated from 2020 to 2030 highlights the transition from the present to the future, and the direction of statistical work towards smart transformation and comprehensive digitization.