Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) in United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates: Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2019. ▬ Flat
Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) in United Arab Emirates, 2014–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in DB16-20 methodology.
Analysis
United Arab Emirates recorded 5 DB16-20 methodology for getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
United Arab Emirates ranks 5th of 136 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
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More private sector data for United Arab Emirates
- Merchandise trade 208.2% (2024)
- Food imports 5.0% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 54.9% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 618.88 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 2.9% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 8.8% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 706.67 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 61,380 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 1.1 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 16.69 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) in United Arab Emirates?
- Getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) in United Arab Emirates was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) recorded in United Arab Emirates?
- The highest recorded value was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2014.
- What is the lowest getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) recorded in United Arab Emirates?
- The lowest recorded value was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2014.
- How does United Arab Emirates rank for getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes)?
- United Arab Emirates ranks 5th out of 136 countries with data for 2019.
- Is getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) rising or falling in United Arab Emirates?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this United Arab Emirates data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) (DB16-20 methodology). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The minimum outage time is the minimum time, in minutes, considered for the calculation of the SAIDI and SAIFI indices. If the minimum outage time exceeds 5 minutes, an economy is not eligible to obtain a score on the Reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index component. The index is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.