​The total turnover of Muscat Securities Market at the end of May 2017 was RO 430 million and RO 215,000, a decrease of 12.9% over the same period of 2016, according to preliminary statistics issued by the NCSI.Total Trading ValueThe total value of trading during the month of May compared to April 2017, where in May amounted to 58 million and 69 thousand Omani riyals compared to 71 million and 457 thousand riyals in April. The general index of the market by the end of May 2017 decline by 6.7% to 5422 points compared to 5811 points during the same period of 2016. Services sector led the decline by 14.9% to 2771 points compared to 3255 points during the same period of 2016, while the financial sector index rose by 8.7% to record at the end of May, 8062 points compared to 7414 points during the same period of 2016. The Industrial sector recorded a rise of 1.8% to reach 7295 points compared to 7168 points by the end of May 2016. The total number of shares traded at the end of May 2017 decr... Details

​Khareef Salalah 2017 Visitors Survey start today  and will continue till September 21st. Khalid bin Said al-Mudhafar, Director General of Economic Statistics affirmed that the survey, which is carried out for the 14th successive year, in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism and Royal Oman Police contributes to providing data and information that reflect the status of tourism sector in the Governorate of Dhofar during Khareef season.Such data will help in planning for this vital sector. He pointed out that the project aims at identifying the size of local and foreign tourism during the Khareef season and decide the growth trends during the past periods. It also aims at studying the demographic and economic features of visitors and the tours.ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Details

The number of social insurance beneficiaries in the Sultanate touched 81,942 at the end of 2016, with the total amount spent on them reaching 119 million, 129 thousand, and 106 RO (119,129,106 RO) , according to the report on Social Insurance issued by the National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI).The statistics showed that there was a 3.2% drop in the number of beneficiaries in 2016 compared to 2015. The population of aged and disabled who benefit from social insurance has reached 71.4 %, as the number of senior citizens reached 33,132 with a total amount spent of 49 million 35 thousand and 240 RO. The number of disabled was 25,507 and 39 million 996 thousand and 129 RO (39,996,129 RO) was disbursed to them. The percentage of the divorcees benefitting from the social insurance is 14.3% with a total number of 11,744 and the total amount spent on them reached 12 million, 684 thousand and 245 RO (12,684,245 RO). The percentage of widows benefitting from the social i... Details

Oman's gross electricity production rose 5.7% to  6,552.5 GW by the end of the first quarter of the current year, while net production went up 6.8% to 6,308.5 GW, says the latest update from the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).Gross production in Muscat saw a fall of 53% to 511.7 GW, while Dhofar production rose 4% to 731.7 GW. Musandam's electricity production went up 2.6% to 53.2 GW, while Dhakliyah's output declined 38.8% to 141.1 GW. Al Batinah and Ad Dhahirah stepped up their production by 7.1% to 3697.4 GW, while Sharqiyah and AL Wusta logged a rise in electricity production at 123% and 11.8%  to touch 1335.2 GW and 82.2 GW respectively.Water productionThe Sultanate's water production increased 5.2% in the first two months of 2017 to reach 60.194 million cu.m. Muscat saw production decline by 0.7% to 26.06 million cu. M, while Dhofar raised production by 17.4% to 8.6 million cu. M during the period.ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Details

The Sultanate's year-on-year consumer inflation for May 2017 touched 1.96%, driven by a rise of 7.46% in the transport set, 1.57% in housing, water electricity, gas and other fuels set and 23.93% in tobacco sets, according to data released by the National Centre for Statistics & Information (NCSI).Prices of foods and non-alcoholic beverages went down 0.03% in May this year compared with the prices during the same period in 2016. The clothing and footwear set too fell 0.06% in May 2017 compared to the same month last year, while furnishing household equipment and routine household maintenance rose 2.46% compared to last year. The health set rose slightly by 0.40% while communication fell 2.90 per cent vis-a-vis last year's prices, while recreation and culture set and restaurant and hotels registered 0.15% and 0.34% rise respectively.  In the food and beverages set, fish and seafood turned costlier by 1.54%, the prices of bread and cereals fell 0.56%, of milk, cheese and eggs de... Details

The number of crimes in the Sultanate decreased by 25% during 2016 compared to 2015 , the lowest recorded in the last three years (2014-2016). The number of perpetrators decreased by 22.8% to reach 20,777 compared to 26,655 in 2015, according to the statistical data bulletin on crimes in the Sultanate for 2016, issued by the National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI).The statistics showed that the percentage of foreign offenders among the total number of offenders was 50. Three crimes are committed in the Sultanate every two hours and for every thousand of the population, and there are five offenders among every thousand, according to the NCSI data. More than half of the crimes was recorded in three governorates: Muscat, North Al Batinah and Dhofar, while the least crime was recorded in Musandam with a rate of 1.5%, while Al Wusta recorded the lowest percentage of perpetrators at 1.5% of the total population. Violation of regulations and laws formed the highest perc... Details