🇾🇪 Yemen Demographics - Population, Culture & Society

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🇾🇪 Yemen YE / YEM #49

Nomad Score 30.0

Cities 11

Region Arab League, Middle East, Arab World, Asia, Asia, Western Asia

Currency YER

📊 KEY DEMOGRAPHICS

Population 32.7M

Density 53.5/km²

HDI 0.470 (Low)

Gini Index (2014) 36.7

Life Expectancy (2023) 69.3 yrs

Fertility Rate (2023) 4.59

Urban Population (2024) 36.8%

Gender Wage Gap (2014) 5.1%

Sources: REST Countries v4, World Bank, OWID

🗣 LANGUAGES & CULTURE

Languages

Language	Native Name
Arabic	العربية

Religions

Religion	Percentage
Islam	99.1%
Other	0.9%

Ethnicities

Ethnicity	Percentage
Arabs	92.8%
Somalis	3.7%
Afro-arabs	1.1%
Indo	1.0%
Others	1.4%

Demonym (male) Yemeni

Demonym (female) Yemeni

National Anthem National anthem of Yemen

📈 POPULATION STRUCTURE

Age Group	Distribution	Share
0-14 Youth		41.1%
15-64 Working		56.4%
65+ Elderly		2.5%

Dependency Ratio 77.5%

Profile Very Young

Urban Pop. (2024) 36.8%

Birth Rate (2023) 35.2 /1000

Death Rate (2023) 4.8 /1000

Fertility Rate (2023) 4.59

Infant Mortality (2023) 34.7 /1000

Source: World Bank

🏥 HEALTHCARE

Life Expectancy (2023) 69.3 yrs

HALE (2021) 56.5 yrs

Health Spending (2023) 9.7% of GDP

Infant Mortality (2023) 34.7/1000

UHC Index (2021) 42/100

Hospital Beds (2023) 0.5/1000

Physicians (2023) 0.10/1000

Source: World Bank, WHO

🎓 EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY

Education Spending (2008) 5.2% of GDP

Learning Outcomes (2020) 321

Internet Users (2020) 13.8%

Mobile Subscriptions (2023) 50.9/100

Broadband (2022) 1.3/100

Source: World Bank, OWID

🌐 BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY

Broadband per 100 (2022) 1.3

Source: ITU / World Bank via OWID. Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people.

🌍 GEOGRAPHY & PRACTICAL

Area 527,968 km²

Capital Sana'a 📍

Continent Asia

Region Asia

Subregion Western Asia

Landlocked No

Driving Side Right

Timezones UTC+03:00

Calling Codes +967

TLD .ye

Maps Google Maps | OpenStreetMap

Borders 🇴🇲 Oman, 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

🏅 NATIONAL SYMBOLS

Flag The flag of Yemen is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and black.