GCC
Home market57M
POPULATION
USD 2.2T
GDP · 2024
GDP GROWTH +4.0%
Abu Dhabi’s home bloc: a single customs union spanning energy, sovereign capital and logistics.
AED 1.2T
GDP · SCAD 2024
54.7% non-oil: your sector does not ride the oil cycle.
AA
SOVEREIGN RATING · S&P 2026
Stable outlook, reaffirmed March 2026, on a deep sovereign balance sheet.
0%
PERSONAL INCOME TAX · UAE MOF
Salaries, dividends and gains are untaxed personally.
#1
SAFEST CITY · NUMBEO 2026
Ten consecutive years at the top of the index.
2B+
CONSUMERS WITHIN REACH
GCC, India, Africa and Asia within an eight-hour flight.
4.14M
POPULATION · SCAD 2024
Young, growing and home to 200+ nationalities.
01
At the centre of a two-billion-person market.
Abu Dhabi sits at the crossroads of East and West. From here, investors reach the world’s fastest-growing economies, the GCC, India, Africa and Asia, a combined market of more than 2 billion consumers and over USD 10 trillion of GDP, much of it covered by UAE trade agreements.
2B+
CONSUMERS WITHIN DIRECT REACH
USD 10 trillion+
COMBINED GDP ACCESSIBLE
12+
CEPA TRADE PARTNERS
FROM ABU DHABI, OUTWARD
The Gulf
GCC customs union
57M
PEOPLE
USD 2.2T
GDP
The wider region
MENA · South Asia · East Africa
2.0B
PEOPLE
USD 9T
GDP
A day’s reach
Europe to East Asia
5.6B
PEOPLE
USD 45T+
GDP
MARKETS WITHIN REACH
Why location is leverage: the economies on Abu Dhabi’s doorstep are some of the largest and fastest-growing on earth. Each is a market you can serve, supply or raise capital from.
India
CEPA · 20221.45B
POPULATION
USD 3.9T
GDP · 2024
GDP GROWTH +6.5%
The world’s fastest-growing major economy and the UAE’s first Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
Africa
AfCFTA gateway1.5B
POPULATION
USD 3.1T
GDP · 2024
GDP GROWTH +3.8%
A single continental market of 1.5 billion people: Abu Dhabi is among its largest foreign investors.
MENA
Regional hub500M
POPULATION
USD 4.0T
GDP · 2024
GDP GROWTH +3.4%
Trade, finance and reconstruction flows across the wider Middle East & North Africa.
Europe
Core trade partner745M
POPULATION
USD 24T
GDP · 2024
GDP GROWTH +1.6%
Deep consumer and capital markets: the EU is the UAE’s second-largest trading partner.
Southeast Asia
CEPA · ASEAN680M
POPULATION
USD 3.8T
GDP · 2024
GDP GROWTH +4.7%
A young, rapidly digitising consumer base, with CEPA partners including Indonesia.
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