Country
Yemen
- Region
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
- Income group
- low income
- Capital
- Sana'a
- ISO code
- YE · YEM
69 indicators. Each shows the value, the rank among the world’s countries and the change over time – click to see the map.
- Population
- 41.8M
- Life expectancy
- 69.4 years
- CO₂ emissions per person
- 0.3 t CO₂
Population
- Population 41.8M 2025 37th of 214
- Population density 77 people/km² 2024 127th of 212
- Population growth 2.89 % per year 2025 15th of 214
- Natural increase 30.4 per 1,000 people 2023 9th of 228
- Net migration -0.4 per 1,000 people 2025 107th of 214
- Fertility rate 4.50 births per woman 2024 13th of 214
- Urban population 37.0 % 2025 177th of 214
- Median age 18.2 years 2023 203rd of 228
- Population aged 65+ 2.5 % 2025 206th of 214
- Old-age dependency ratio 4.5 per 100 people aged 15–64 2025 204th of 214
- Children under 15 41.0 % 2025 17th of 214
Health
- Life expectancy 69.4 years 2024 154th of 214
- Life expectancy, women 71.5 years 2024 157th of 214
- Life expectancy, men 67.4 years 2024 149th of 214
- Life expectancy gap, women vs men 4.2 years 2024 149th of 214
- Infant mortality 33.8 per 1,000 births 2024 38th of 195
- Under-5 mortality 38.1 per 1,000 births 2024 44th of 195
- Maternal mortality 118 per 100,000 births 2023 59th of 193
- Health spending per person 48 USD 2023 171st of 190
- Health spending (PPP) 169 $ (PPP) 2023 161st of 191
- Physicians 0.10 per 1,000 people 2023 168th of 179
- Hospital beds 0.5 per 1,000 people 2023 141st of 150
- Measles immunization 41 % 2024 189th of 191
- Calorie supply 1,810 kcal per day 2023 175th of 175
- Meat supply 13.7 kg per person per year 2023 158th of 175
Economy
- GDP 21.6B USD 2018 not ranked – no value for 2025
- GDP per capita 634 USD 2018 not ranked – no value for 2025
- GDP per capita since 1820 1,959 int-$ (2011 prices) 2022 145th of 165
- GDP growth 0.8 % 2018 not ranked – no value for 2025
- GDP per capita growth -2.2 % 2018 not ranked – no value for 2025
- Inflation 8.1 % 2014 not ranked – no value for 2025
- Unemployment 17.3 % 2025 11th of 181
- Youth unemployment 32.6 % 2025 17th of 181
- Youth not in education, employment or training 44.8 % 2014 not ranked – no value for 2025
- Trade 56 % of GDP 2018 not ranked – no value for 2024
- Income inequality (Gini) 36.7 2014 not ranked – no value for 2025
- Extreme poverty 33.3 % 2014 not ranked – no value for 2025
- Agriculture in the economy 28.7 % of GDP 2018 not ranked – no value for 2024
- Women in the labour force 4.7 % 2025 181st of 181
Education and society
- Human Development Index (HDI) 0.470 2023 183rd of 192
- Literacy rate 37.1 % 1994 not ranked – no value for 2024
- Education spending 5.2 % of GDP 2008 not ranked – no value for 2022
- Secondary school enrolment 44 % 2016 not ranked – no value for 2023
- Tertiary enrolment 9 % 2011 not ranked – no value for 2023
- Primary completion rate 60 % 2016 not ranked – no value for 2023
- Women in parliament 0.0 % 2025 182nd of 183
- Homicide rate 5.8 per 100,000 people 2013 not ranked – no value for 2020
Technology and infrastructure
Environment and energy
- CO₂ emissions 10.6 Mt CO₂ 2024 108th of 201
- CO₂ emissions per person 0.3 t CO₂ 2024 177th of 201
- CO₂ emissions per person since 1850 0.25 t CO₂ 2024 195th of 212
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions 0.7 Gt CO₂ 2024 94th of 212
- Greenhouse gases per person 0.8 t CO₂e 2024 187th of 201
- Forest area 1.0 % of land 2024 194th of 208
- Water stress 170 % 2022 6th of 176
- Arable land 2.2 % of land 2024 166th of 205
- Renewable energy 3.7 % of final energy 2021 169th of 210
- Renewable electricity 11.2 % of electricity 2024 145th of 193
- Nuclear electricity 0.0 % of electricity 2024 32nd of 193
- Electricity from coal 0.0 % of electricity 2024 82nd of 193
- Electricity from wind 0.0 % of electricity 2024 108th of 193
- Electricity from solar 11.2 % of electricity 2024 35th of 193
- Carbon intensity of electricity 591 g CO₂e/kWh 2024 55th of 193
- Electricity generation per person 129 kWh 2024 171st of 190
- PM2.5 air pollution 46.8 µg/m³ 2023 15th of 199
Yemen on other Ominuvo maps
- Languages of the worldArabic · official languageSource: Unicode CLDR (Unicode License v3)
- Prices around the worldYemeni rial (YER)Source: ISO 4217
- Time zones mapUTC+3Source: IANA tz database (public domain)
- Plugs and sockets of the worldType A, D, G · 230 V · 50 Hz
- National dishes of the world2 national dishes
- Plants of the world8 characteristic plants
- Volcano & earthquake map10 volcanoesSource: Smithsonian GVP (Smithsonian Terms of Use)
- VPN provider mapServers of 2 VPN providersSource: VPN Map (Ominuvo) (CC BY 4.0)