Dubai Municipality has released statistics on the demographics of the emirate. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the report only served to prove what is already known to people living and working in the emirate, namely, that Dubai is increasing in dramatic form in all directions.

As with any survey of this type, there is much fodder on which to feast, not only from the government's viewpoint, but also all industrialists and investors wanting to determine trends and keep abreast, if not ahead, of them.

One of the most alarming facts to emerge is the disproportion between the number of men and the number of women in the emirate - more than 3:1.

This obviously shows that there are a large number of "bachelors" - a term used to include married men who are forced to live apart from their family - besides single men. It therefore throws into doubt the practice of moving single persons out of the city to ensure the safety and security of families.

For not only will the majority not be living in or near the city centre, where most jobs can be found, but it also infers that all unmarried people are not to be trusted around families, which assumption is appalling.

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