The Q3 2026 findings documented annual changes in the UAE through 2025 rather than movements within July–September 2026. GDP at purchasing-power parity rose for 4 straight years, from $627.9 billion in 2020 to $871.7 billion in 2024, an increase of 39%.
Growth in credit to the private sector as a share of broad money rose for 5 straight years, from -2.17% in 2020 to 6.28% in 2025, up 8.4 percentage points. This sustained increase overlapped with the rise in PPP GDP and extended through 2025.
Outward foreign direct investment reached 14.0% of GDP in 2024, 12 percentage points above its 1990–2023 average of 2.09%. A gap that large had not appeared in the past 35 years. Taken together, the findings documented sustained increases in PPP GDP and the credit-growth measure, alongside an unusually high outward FDI share.
The brief covered Q3 2026 and drew on statistically detected findings from multilateral sources, checked before publication; the supplied material did not identify those sources by name. Findings marked as replaced by newer versions were excluded.