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*According to an estimate by the World Bank, expatriates and immigrants account for 88.52% while Emiratis make up the remaining 11.48%. | *According to an estimate by the World Bank, expatriates and immigrants account for 88.52% while Emiratis make up the remaining 11.48%. | ||
*The UAE is ethnically diverse. The five most populous nationalities in the emirates of Dubai, Sharjah, and Ajman are '''Indian (25%), Pakistani (12%), Emirati (9%), Bangladeshi (7%), and Filipino (5%)'''. | *The UAE is ethnically diverse. The five most populous nationalities in the emirates of Dubai, Sharjah, and Ajman are '''Indian (25%), Pakistani (12%), Emirati (9%), Bangladeshi (7%), and Filipino (5%)'''. | ||
* | *Around 500,000 expatriates from '''Europe, Australia, Northern America and Latin America''' live in the UAE, including more than 100,000 '''British nationals'''. The rest of the country's population is from '''other Arab states.'''<ref>"United Arab Emirates," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates, accessed 22 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Indians in the United Arab Emirates==== | ====Indians in the United Arab Emirates==== | ||
*Countries in the Persian Gulf region have had a long-established economic and political link with India. Trucial Oman (now UAE), was nominally independent in the 19th century but was administered by the British Raj; trade and banking sectors in the territory were administered by the Khoja and Kutchi communities of India. In 1853, the rulers of the emirates signed a Perpetual Maritime Truce with the British, effectively bringing the region under Britain's sphere of influence. Administered from British India, the emirates developed commonalities with South Asia. | *Countries in the Persian Gulf region have had a long-established economic and political link with India. Trucial Oman (now UAE), was nominally independent in the 19th century but was administered by the British Raj; trade and banking sectors in the territory were administered by the Khoja and Kutchi communities of India. In 1853, the rulers of the emirates signed a Perpetual Maritime Truce with the British, effectively bringing the region under Britain's sphere of influence. Administered from British India, the emirates developed commonalities with South Asia. | ||