Academic years — to — · Ministry of Community Development records published by FCSC
Enrolment rose from — to — students (— a year). The number of centres has fallen from a peak of — to —, so each centre now serves — students. Autism is the fastest-growing need: its share of students went from — to —. If growth continues at the long-run rate, enrolment would reach about — by 2030/31, which would need about — centres at today's students per centre.
2015/16 isn't reported in the files, so that year is left as a gap. Use the emirate filter above to switch from UAE totals to one emirate.
Percentage change from the previous reported year. Where a year is missing, the change is averaged per year.
Students, centres, staff and federal-sector students on a common scale. Staff aren't reported every year.
Bars: number of centres (left scale). Line: students per centre (right scale).
Share of students who are citizens, and share who are male, each year.
Pick a disability type to highlight it. Autism has grown in every reported year except 2020/21, while intellectual disability has stayed roughly flat. Down syndrome is counted under intellectual disability.
1.0 means equal numbers. Visual disability and “Other” are left out because they have too few students for a stable ratio. The highlight setting applies here too.
Compound annual growth by disability type. Bars to the left of the line are declines.
“Other” combines learning difficulties, communication disorders, ADHD and not stated.
| Disability type | 2011/12 | 2022/23 | Change | Per year |
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The emirate you pick in the filter is highlighted. Umm Al Quwain is reported from 2016/17, and centres by emirate aren't reported for 2011/12 or 2018/19.
Across: students' growth per year since each emirate's first reported year. Up: students per centre in 2022/23. Bubble size: students. Emirates toward the top right are growing fast and already have busy centres.
Darker cells mean more students compared with that emirate's own peak. Rows follow the sort setting above.
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Change from each emirate's first reported year to 2022/23. Click a column heading to sort. This changes the sort setting for the whole dashboard.
Semi-government is reported separately from 2018/19; before that it was counted in other sectors. There is no sector split for 2011/12–2012/13.
Private centres (integrated services and individual sessions combined) have been closing since 2019/20, while federal centres have been added.
Staff figures are published only for some years. Bars show staff (left scale) and the line shows students per staff member (right scale).
The longest unbroken series in the reports, covering Ministry of Community Development centres only. It has risen steadily since 2015/16, apart from a flat 2016/17.
There are three scenarios. Linear trend fits a straight line to every reported year; the shaded band is its 80% prediction interval. Long-run growth compounds the average yearly rate since the first reported year. Recent growth compounds the rate over the last five years. Pick an emirate in the filter above to forecast that emirate. These are simple extrapolations, not a demographic model.
Projected value each year under each scenario.
| Year | Linear | Long-run | Recent |
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| Year | Linear | Long-run | Recent |
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Students under the chosen scenario, with the centres (and, for the UAE, staff) needed to keep 2022/23 levels of students per centre and per staff member. Staff aren't reported by emirate.
| Year | Students | Centres needed | Staff needed |
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Each row runs from the 2022/23 count (grey dot) to the 2030/31 forecast under the scenario chosen above (coloured dot). The thick grey bar underneath is the linear trend's 80% range. Rows follow the sort setting.
Students in 2030/31 under each scenario, the long-run growth rate, and centres needed under the chosen scenario at each emirate's 2022/23 students per centre.
| Emirate | 2022/23 | Linear | Long-run | Recent | Centres now | Centres needed |
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Worked out from the tables below.
UAE-wide: these figures aren't broken down by emirate.
Autism is far more common among boys. Intellectual disability is closer to even.
UAE-wide: these figures aren't broken down by emirate.
Groups with fewer than 50 students are left out. The dashed line marks the UAE average across all disability types.
UAE-wide: these figures aren't broken down by emirate.
Students in each age group, boys on the left and girls on the right. The 6–10 group is the largest.
UAE-wide: these figures aren't broken down by emirate.
Each bar adds up to 100%. Groups with fewer than 50 students are left out. Autism is concentrated at ages 6–15, and intellectual disability continues into adulthood.
UAE-wide: these figures aren't broken down by emirate.
Students in each age group; darker cells mean more students.
Click a column heading to sort. The emirate picked in the filter is highlighted.
Most students in Fujairah, Umm Al Quwain and Ras Al Khaimah are citizens. Most in Dubai and Sharjah are not.
Number of centres in each emirate, split by sector.
UAE-wide: these figures aren't broken down by emirate.
Government centres serve mostly citizens. Private centres serve mostly non-citizens.
UAE-wide: these figures aren't broken down by emirate.
Semi-government centres have more staff than students. Almost all private-sector staff are non-citizens.
How the ten workbooks were combined, and what to keep in mind when you quote these figures.
Source: Ministry of Community Development administrative records, published by the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC). Academic years 2011/12–2022/23. Forecasts are scenario extrapolations, not official projections.