4 September 2026Established 2026 · English edition
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Prices

US EIA via Datahub · 4 September 2026
Brent crude, spot
$96.02a barrel
2026-09-01
10.4% against thirty sessions earlier

Renewable share of electricity output, latest year

World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0
Jordan24.92 % 2021
Morocco19.32 % 2021
Egypt, Arab Rep.12.2 % 2021
United Arab Emirates4.2 % 2021
Oman1.94 % 2021
Qatar0.28 % 2021
Kuwait0.27 % 2021
Saudi Arabia0.07 % 2021
Bahrain0.04 % 2021

Latest available year per country; vintages differ, so the year is shown against every value.

Merchandise exports, latest year

World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0
United Arab Emirates706,671,000,000 USD 2025
Saudi Arabia310,672,000,000 USD 2025
Qatar88,771,000,000 USD 2025
Kuwait72,073,000,000 USD 2025
Oman55,276,000,000 USD 2025
Egypt, Arab Rep.51,403,000,000 USD 2025
Morocco49,777,000,000 USD 2025
Bahrain26,456,000,000 USD 2025
Jordan14,913,000,000 USD 2025

Latest available year per country; vintages differ, so the year is shown against every value.

Currencies per US dollar

Currency API · 4 September 2026
UAE dirham3.6725Saudi riyal3.75Qatari riyal3.64Kuwaiti dinar0.3089Omani rial0.3848Bahraini dinar0.376Egyptian pound50.9556Jordanian dinar0.709Moroccan dirham9.3546

Gulf currencies are pegged; the row records the rate, not a movement.

The Monitor shows commercial and physical data only. It carries no military, conflict, security or political layer, and no port throughput, call count or utilisation series for any country. Chokepoint level data is transit counts recorded at the strait or canal. See Method.