
UAE health spending reaches US$2,402 per person, the highest of the six GCC states
The UAE ranks third among the six Gulf states on doctors per 10,000 people and fourth on nurses and midwives, the Zavis GCC Health System Scorecard shows.
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News and data analysis on UAE and GCC healthcare, with 8 monthly Zavis Data indices that each state their method, sources and limits. Updated .

Emergency & Urgent Care impressions rose 55.6%, the fastest rise of any specialty, while searches naming Dubai drew 144,128 impressions, the most of any city.
Zavis Healthcare Industry Insights publishes news and data analysis on the UAE healthcare industry across nine categories: Regulatory & Policy, New Openings, Finance & Investment, Events & Conferences, Social Pulse, Thought Leadership, Market Intelligence, Health Tech & Innovation, and Workforce & Talent. It covers regulatory updates from the UAE health regulators, facility openings, M&A activity, funding rounds and workforce trends, for healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, investors and health tech founders in the UAE and the wider GCC.
News briefs and data analysis on healthcare in the UAE and the GCC, in 9 sections from regulation and clinic openings to finance, health tech and the workforce. It also publishes 8 monthly Zavis Data indices, each with its method, sources and downloadable data.
From Zavis datasets with named sources: the official facility and professional registers, US and EU medicines regulators, ClinicalTrials.gov, the World Health Organization, Google ratings and opening hours of licensed facilities, and Google Search data for the directory. Each piece states its method, sources and limits.
Since 19 October 2026 the Zavis Intelligence Desk drafts each piece with AI from Zavis datasets, and code checks every figure against the data before publication. A human editor does not review each Desk piece. Articles from before that date were AI-assisted summaries of other publications' reporting, each attributed to its original source.
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