Ajman recorded a pointy rise in new enterprise exercise within the first half of 2025, with new skilled licences up 37 per cent, in keeping with figures from the emirate’s Division of Financial Improvement.
The Ajman Competitiveness Workplace reported a 24 per cent total improve in new licences, together with an 11 per cent rise in industrial licences and 9 per cent in industrial ones.
Renewed licences additionally rose 8 per cent year-on-year, with each industrial and industrial renewals up 9 per cent {and professional} renewals up 8 per cent.
Ajman enterprise licences
The emirate additionally welcomed extra new buyers, with a 24 per cent improve in first-time buyers in contrast with the identical interval final yr. This helped drive an 8 per cent rise in energetic licences because the begin of 2025.
For the primary time, Ethiopia and Sudan entered Ajman’s prime 10 nationalities for licence holders, reflecting the emirate’s increasing worldwide attraction and more and more various investor base.
Saif Ahmed Al Suwaidi, Director-Normal of the Division of Financial Improvement, stated: “The outcomes underscore Ajman’s success in positioning itself as a lovely vacation spot for funding and entrepreneurship by means of business-friendly initiatives and streamlined procedures.”
The figures spotlight the emirate’s continued efforts to strengthen its enterprise setting, diversify investor participation, and improve competitiveness as a part of the UAE’s wider financial development.