Page 465 - MOET PR REPORT- SEPTEMBER 2025

9/23/25, 3:41 PM Minister of Economy: UAE seeks to increase number of startups to more than two million by 2031 – The Gulf Time Newspaper
The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contributed 63.5% to the non-oil GDP of the national

economy by mid-2022, while SMEs account for 95% of the total number of companies operating in the UAE

markets.

https://gulftime.ae/minister-of-economy-uae-seeks-to-increase-number-of-startups-to-more-than-two-million-by-2031/ 2/2