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Key facts

  • Currency: Yemeni rial
  • Capital city: Sana'a
  • Region: Western Asia
  • Continent: Asia
  • Land area: 527,970 km²
  • Population: 33,696,614
  • Political Leader: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (President)

Latest news

Today's D Brief: Secretive airstrip near Yemen; USAF chief Allvin, in conversation; Russia-North Korea cargo flights continue; Is this the end for towed howitzers?; And a bit more.

Read: Defense One

2024-03-28

An airstrip is being built on a Yemeni island during the ongoing war, with 'I LOVE UAE' next to it

Read: The Washington Times

2024-03-28

An airstrip is being built on a Yemeni island during the ongoing war, with 'I LOVE UAE' next to it

Read: The Star

2024-03-28

Russian diplomat, UN special envoy on Yemen discuss escalation in Red Sea

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-03-27

Elon Musk's Starlink terminals are showing up in Yemen, Sudan, and other hotspots: 'No accountability'

Read: Quartz

2024-03-26

Turkish TIKA sends Ramadan food aid to Congo, Peru, Yemen, Somalia

Read: Daily Sabah

2024-03-26

Russian, Yemeni diplomats discuss crisis amid Red Sea escalation

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-03-25

Metrics

Business

GDP 21,606,200,000.00 current US$
Inflation 8.10 annual %
Self-employed 54.48 % of total employment
Unemployment 17.61 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 47.81 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 234,520.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 0.00 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 9,960.10 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 39.80 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 60.20 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 0.00 % of total
Net energy imports -120.63 % of energy use
Fertility rate 3.79 births per woman
Forest area 5,490 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 98.49 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -14,418.00 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 14.80 years
Methane emissions 10,542.20 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 3,364.86 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 16,673,411
Male Population 17,023,203
Renewable energy consumption 3.53 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 452,881.00 km²
Rural population 20,491,585
Urban land area 1,795.36 km²
Urban population 13,205,029
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 1.01 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 30.54 per 1,000 people
Death rate 6.84 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 63.30 current US$
Health expenditure 4.25 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.04 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 0.71 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 64 years
Suicide mortality rate 5.80 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 74.88 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 4,523,000
Individuals using the Internet 26.72 % of population
Net migration -29,998
Press freedom 1.27


Politics

Armed forces personnel 40,000
Democracy score 1.95
Democracy type Authoritarian
Military expenditure 3.97 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 0.00 %


Visualizations

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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 1 day ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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