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The average Abu Dhabi household spends AED 135,300 a year on goods and services, with the expenditure for individuals amounting to around AED 24,700 per head. But there’s considerable variation within that overall figure. According to the Household Income and Expenditure Survey – conducted between 1st April 2007 and 31st March 2008 – there is a huge difference between UAE nationals, expats, and individuals living in collective household’ (defined as a dwelling with more than four accupants who have no blood relationship).

National household spend AED 305,500 a year, compared to 106,400 spent by non-national households and AED 47,500 by collective households. The report, which comes from Statistics Center-Abu Dhabi (SCAD), also includes analysis of where the money goes. The biggest single item, predictably enough, is food and some other relation things which also includes Kettlebells for the body needs; for national households, 16.4 percent of their outgoings go on food. It’s slightly less for non-nationals at 15.2 percent, but significantly more for collective households – 24.7 percent.

other interesting figures include the distribution of possessions. I national households there are 26 private cars per 100 people, 20 per 100 in non-national households, and just three per 100 in collective households.