The UAE is a union of the seven trucial sheikdoms near the mouth of the Persian Gulfwhich include Abu Dhabishortly to be as oilrich as Kuwait. and Dubaiwhlch is the commercial capital of the UAE. Before thle oilboom in the 1960s. they had villagesize urban populations and a few Bedouin. Almost their entire population has been recent immigrants. Thus. today more than 75 percent of the people are not native. and this may shortly rise to over 90 percent. if the experience of Kuwait is a guide. The UAE today has a total population of 200.000. while Kuwait has about 850.000in other words. there is the likely possibility of a four fold population increase as the big money starts to roll in. and the UAE begins to count its wealth in multiple billions of dollars.
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