Arab Development Portal

The Arab region’s leading AI-powered data and knowledge hub providing comprehensive insights for evidence-based policy and decision-making to drive sustainable development.
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Arab region key indicators

Population
Total GDP
GDP per capita
Unemployment rate
Poverty Rate
Minimum 1 social benefit
FDI
Remittances
Inflation
General Govt. Debt (Gross)
Imports
Exports
Essential Health Services
Overweight among adults
Children stunted/wasted /overweight
DTP vaccine
Under-5 mortality rate
Children violence
Female labor force participation
Women in parliament
Financial inclusiveness index
Maternal mortality rate
Female out of school
Adolescent Birth Rate
Youth NEET Rate
Learning Deprivation
Internet Users
Carbon Emissions
Safe drinking water
Safe Sanitation

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SDGs Tracking Tool

The SDGs tracking tool is the first regional platform that monitors the status of countries with respect to UNSD's global list of 234 unique indicators and to national strategies adopted by governments.

It offers a data visualization tool that allows for multi-country comparison and a report builder that generates availability reports on SDGs by goal, country, source type and years.

Policy & Knowledge Hub

البوابة العربية للتنمية
Arab Region - 2025
البوابة العربية للتنمية: نحو رأب الفجوات الإحصائية ومساندة صياغة السياسات الحكومية في الدول العربية
Accelerating the Economic Transition of Qatar
Qatar - 2025
Accelerating the Economic Transition of Qatar
Qatar’s pursuit of government excellence
Qatar - 2025
Qatar’s pursuit of government excellence: promises and pitfalls
Qatarisation playing the long game on workforce nationalisation
Qatar - 2025
Qatarisation: playing the long game on workforce nationalisation
Arab Region - 2025
البوابة العربية للتنمية: نحو رأب الفجوات الإحصائية ومساندة صياغة السياسات الحكومية في الدول العربية
Policy Brief
وقّع الصندوق العربى للإنماء الاقتصادي والاجتماعي مشروعاً تعاونياً إقليمياً استراتيجياً مع اللجنة الاقتصادية والاجتماعية لغربى آسيا (إسكوا) التابعة للأمم المتحدة فى إطار مشروع إقليمى (Artificial Intelligence) لإطلاق البوابة العربية للتنمية. يتم من خلاله بناء وتنفيذ منصة للبيانات باستخدام أدوات الذكاء الاصطناعيويتجسد الهدف من هذا المشروع الإقليمي في توفير بيانات شاملة، وإصدار التقاريرالمتخصصة حول الدول العربية مدعمة بتقنيات الذكاء (Country Notes Diagnostic )الاصطناعى، التى ستكون بغاية الأهمية لمتخذي القرارات فى الوطن العربى، حيث يسعى من هذا العمل المشترك إلى سد الفجوات والوصول إلى البيانات الموثوقة، وخلق قاعدة معلومات متينة ذات مصداقية عالية. إضافة إلى دعم الجهود التعاونية بين المؤسستين لدفع…
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Qatar - 2025
Accelerating the Economic Transition of Qatar
Policy Brief
Qatar is a country in transition. Once it began exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the mid-1990s, Qatar entered a period of rapid economic growth and development. GDP increased from under 20 billion USD in 1995 to over 160 billion USD in 2015 (in constant terms), before settling around this level. Qatar channeled this revenue into modernizing the country. It expanded public services, executed large infrastructure projects, and engaged in new construction to accommodate a five-fold increase in its population driven by the arrival of migrant workers. The sense of urgency was maintained by Qatar’s successful bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The post-World Cup period represents a new…
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Qatar - 2025
Qatar’s pursuit of government excellence: promises and pitfalls
Policy Brief
As Qatar seeks to make the transition from a hydrocarbonbased economy to a diversified, knowledge-based economy, ‘government excellence’ has been identified as a key strategic objective. This column reports what government effectiveness means in terms of delivery of public services, digitalisation of services, and control of corruption – and outlines the progress made to date on these development priorities and what the country needs to do to meet its targets.
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Qatar - 2025
Qatarisation: playing the long game on workforce nationalisation
Policy Brief
As national populations across the Gulf have grown and hydrocarbon reserves declined, most Gulf countries have sought to move to a more sustainable economic model underpinned by raising the share of citizens in the productive private sector. But, as this column explains, Qatar differs from its neighbours in several important ways that could render aggressive workforce nationalization policies counterproductive. In terms of such policies, the country should chart its own path.
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Qatar - 2025
Workforce Development During Qatar’s Economic Transition
Policy Brief
In a nutshell• Qatar’s economic transition to a diversified, competitive, knowledge-based economy requires a workforce composed of competitive citizens and high-skilled expatriates.• Developing a competitive national workforce requires that Qatar’s education system focus more on skills and citizens have access to upskilling opportunities throughout their careers.• Attracting high-skilled expatriates requires paying them competitive salaries, providing them a measure of autonomy in their work, and creating opportunities to invest in the country.• Creating a competitive private sector requires Qatari authorities to ensure that the skills of expatriate workers complement those of its national…
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Tunisia - 2024
Education and health in Tunisia: is human capital at risk?
Policy Brief
Tunisia has made significant strides in enhancing the skills, knowledge and health of its population, all cornerstones of economic growth and social progress. This column examines the state of the country’s education and healthcare systems, identifying structural weaknesses that could jeopardise human capital and, by extension, progress towards achieving the sustainable development goals.
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The Arab Development Portal is a network of interconnected components that work together to capture, process, produce and use data to support decision-making and drive sustainable development in the Arab Region.

The tool brings together data from key data producers in the region (UN, Arab Development Portal, member States, and key international partners), on the basis of sound data governance mechanisms, and contextualizes this data and information in a way that facilitates the creation and sharing of high-quality digital policy support products by leveraging the latest developments in artificial intelligence, geospatial, and big data technologies to provide policymakers in the region with innovative decision-support tools and data analytical capabilities for evidence-based policymaking in the region.
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