Dubai, the UAE’s second largest emirate, had 2,540 new babies in 2015, an average of one baby every 3.5 hours, according to a local official.
A total 30,348 babies were born in the emirate in 2015, a monthly average of 2,540 and 84 daily, said Aref Al Muhairi, executive director of the Dubai Statistics Centre (DSC).
He told Albayan daily that expatriate births were nearly triple that of Emiratis, with 22,755 babies born to foreign mothers and 7,728 to nationals.
Emirati baby boys stood at 4,018 and expatriate males at 11,781, he said.
Figures by the government DSC showed Dubai’s total population stood at 2.487 million on Wednesday.