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Bahrain is unique. Nowhere else in the Middle East is quite so business-friendly.

We have been welcoming foreign investors for decades, so we understand their needs and how to help them prosper.

The Gulf market is growing fast, by 5.5% a year. The combined GDP of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain – is already worth $735 billion¹, and by 2050 could close the gap with G-7 economies.

The population has grown ten-fold in 50 years, to 40 million in 2006, one of the highest rates in the world².

The oil price windfall has been reinvested in new infrastructure, including transport, telecommunications, education, training and healthcare. Regionally, around $1 trillion infrastructure investments are in the pipeline. By 2010 this could total $3 trillion³.

With its unique location at the heart of the Gulf, Bahrain is perfectly positioned to exploit one of the fastest-growing markets in the world.

¹ Goldman Sachs, GCC Report, April 2007.
² United Nations Expert Group Meeting on International Migration and Development in the Arab Region, May 2006.
³ McKinsey, Beyond Oil Report 2007.