Census 'will highlight imbalance'

QUOTE\ The first census in 1968 found the UAE had a population of 180,964, of whom 114,033 were nationals comprising 63 per cent of the total population, and 66,931 were expatriates.

This UAE national domination disappeared in 1975, Al Shamsi said, when the UAE population rose by 300 per cent and the total population was 557,887, of whom 356,343 were expatriates comprising 63.8 per cent of the UAE's total population. /UNQUOTE