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Yemen

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Yemen is a country. The capital city is Sana'a, located in the Western Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 527,970 km², a population of 39,390,799 people and uses the currency Yemeni rial. The President is Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Key facts

currency: Yemeni rial
capital city: Sana'a
region: Western Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 527,970 km²
population: 39,390,799 people
political leader: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (President)

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GDP: 21,606,160,783.98 current US$
inflation: 8.10 annual %
self-employed workers: 53.80 % of total employment
unemployment: 17.09 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 46.92 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 40,000 people
democracy score: 1.95
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 4,516,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 13.80 % of population
military expenditure: 3.97 % of GDP
net migration: -5,233 people
press freedom: 1.27
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 0.00 %
birth rate: 29.92 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.82 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 63.30 current US$
health expenditure: 4.25 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.03 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.71 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 64
suicide mortality rate: 5.80 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 234,520.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.00 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 10.90 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 76.00 % of population
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: 3.72 births per woman
forest area: 5,490 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 98.49 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 32.24 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 14.20
methane emissions: 11.56 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 4.17 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 19,440,467 people
male population: 19,950,332 people
renewable energy consumption: 3.70 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 452,881.31 km²
rural population: 23,701,050 people
urban land area: 1,795.36 km²
urban population: 15,689,749 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.01 % of total population

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Yemen is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Western Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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Correlation of methane emissions and armed forces personnel by countries yearly in Yemen

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