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Yemen
Community
Area 527,968 square kilometres (land area 527,968 square kilometres)
Population,
4,460,000 (1950)
5,315,000 (1960)
6,200,000 (1970)
7,942,000 (1980)
11,710,000 (1990)
17,409,000 (2000)
23,155,000 (2010)
26,498,000 (2015)
28,499,000 (2018)
Ethnicity,
The population is almost entirely Arab or Afro-Arab.
Religion, %
|
|
Jewish |
Muslim Shia |
Muslim Sunni |
|
1945 |
1.4* |
|
|
|
1970 |
0.0 |
|
|
|
1990 |
0.0 |
54.0 |
46.0 |
|
2014 |
0.0 |
62.5 |
37.5 |
*In 1947, Aden was 9.0% Jewish; The remainder of what is now Yemen was 1.1% Jewish.
Birth and death rates Below replacement rate = 2.1 A = Aden only
|
|
Fertility Rate |
Birth Rate |
Infant Mortality |
Death Rate |
% Aged Under 15 |
% Aged Over 65 |
|
1945 |
|
28.0 (+7.0) A |
172.0 A |
21.0 A |
|
|
|
1960 |
7.5 |
50.4 (+29.9) |
|
30.5 |
42.5 |
3.4 |
|
1962 |
7.6 |
27.0 (+20.3) A |
|
6.7 A |
42.7 |
3.4 |
|
1967 |
7.8 |
27.7 (+21.0) A |
79.9 A |
6.7 A |
43.3 |
3.2 |
|
1968 |
7.8 |
49.0 (+22.8) |
236.2 |
26.2 |
43.8 |
3.1 |
|
1970 |
7.8 |
53.1 (+28.5) |
219.0 |
24.6 |
44.7 |
3.0 |
|
1980 |
8.8 |
58.0 (+41.0) |
139.0 |
17.0 |
49.5 |
2.8 |
|
1990 |
8.6 |
52.0 (+40.5) |
88.4 |
11.5 |
51.9 |
2.5 |
|
2000 |
6.4 |
39.3 (+30.2) |
69.0 |
9.1 |
48.6 |
2.8 |
|
2010 |
4.7 |
34.5 (+27.4) |
43.8 |
7.1 |
42.5 |
2.7 |
|
2015 |
4.1 |
32.2 (+25.7) |
43.2 |
6.5 |
40.6 |
2.9 |
|
2016 |
|
|
43.2 |
|
40.3 |
2.9 |
|
2017 |
3.9 |
31.0 (+24.6) |
42.9 |
6.4 |
|
|
|
2018 |
|
|
42.9 |
|
39.6 |
2.9 |
Urban, %
|
|
North Yemen |
South Yemen |
All Yemen |
|
1950 |
1.9 |
18.8 |
|
|
1960 |
3.4 |
28.0 |
9.1 |
|
1970 |
6.0 |
32.5 |
13.3 |
|
1980 |
15.3 |
36.9 |
16.5 |
|
1990 |
|
|
20.9 |
|
2000 |
|
|
26.3 |
|
2010 |
|
|
31.7 |
|
2014 |
|
|
34.0 |
|
2015 |
|
|
34.6 |
|
2016 |
|
|
35.2 |
Life expectancy,
23.0 (1800)
33.0 (1950); 33.0 (M), 33.0 (F)
34.4 (1960); 33.2 (M), 35.5 (F)
41.1 (1970); 39.8 (M), 42.5 (F)
50.6 (1980); 48.0 (M), 52.1 (F)
57.8 (1990); 56.3 (M), 59.3 (F)
60.4 (2000); 59.0 (M), 61.8 (F)
63.5 (2010); 62.2 (M), 64.9 (F)
64.7 (2015); 63.3 (M), 66.2 (F)
66.2 (2020); 64.5 (M), 67.9 (F)
Population of principal cities
|
|
Aden |
Hodeida |
SANA�A |
Taiz |
|
1837 |
600 |
|
|
|
|
1850 |
25,000 |
|
|
|
|
1890 |
|
|
30,000* |
|
|
1900 |
41,000 |
20,000 |
|
|
|
1950 |
107,000 |
|
|
|
|
1960 |
181,000 |
|
70,000 |
|
|
1970 |
275,000 |
|
|
40,000 |
|
1980 |
|
26,836 |
277,817 |
119,572 |
|
1990 |
450,000 |
165,000 |
|
190,000 |
|
1995 |
562,000 |
|
972,000 |
|
|
2004 |
589,419 |
|
1,707,586 |
|
|
2009 |
|
|
2,300,000 |
|
|
2012 |
|
|
4,167,961 MA |
|
|
2014 |
|
|
|
615,222 |
|
2017 |
1,760,923 |
400,000 |
|
|
*Approximately 40% of these were Jewish.
Wealth; Gross Domestic Product (nominal values)
|
|
GDP, US$ million |
Total GDP, % of USA |
GDP per capita, US$ |
GDP per capita % of USA |
|
1956 |
|
|
90 |
|
|
1958 |
180 |
0.05 |
|
|
|
1970 |
|
|
100 |
1.91 |
|
1983 |
4,900 |
0.13 |
510 |
3.36 |
|
1990 |
5,650 |
0.10 |
468 |
1.95 |
|
1995 |
4,260 |
0.06 |
280 |
0.93 |
|
2000 |
9,636 |
0.10 |
540 |
1.48 |
|
2005 |
16,700 |
0.13 |
814 |
1.84 |
|
2010 |
30.900 |
0.00 |
1,300 |
2.69 |
|
2015 |
37,730 |
0.21 |
1,400 |
2.49 |
|
2016 |
27,300 |
0.15 |
990 |
1.72 |
GDP by primary sector
|
|
Agriculture % GDP |
Agriculture % employed |
Industry % GDP |
Industry % employed |
Services % GDP |
Services % employed |
|
1991 |
|
63.0 |
|
11.0 |
|
26.0 |
|
2000 |
14.0 |
|
41.0 |
|
45.0 |
|
|
2011 |
8.3 |
|
42.6 |
|
50.2 |
|
|
2013 |
7.7 |
|
30.9 |
|
61.4 |
|
|
2016 |
21.8 |
75.0 |
9.8 |
|
68.4 |
|
Communications
Language Official; Arabic
Literacy
11.5% (1980); 20.0% (M), 3.0% (F)
25.9% (1985)
46.3% (2000); 67.5% (M), 25.2% (F)
58.9% (2010); 77.0% (M), 40.5% (F)
70.1% (2015); 85.1% (M), 55.0% (F)
Physical communications � roads
|
|
Roads (km) |
Surfaced (km) |
Motor vehicles |
Cars |
Commercial Vehicles |
|
1939 |
|
|
|
733* |
207* |
|
1956 |
|
|
6,200* |
|
|
|
1973 |
|
|
|
20,000 |
|
|
1974 |
3,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
1983 |
20,000 |
2,100 |
|
|
|
|
1986 |
|
|
390,000 |
202,000 |
186,000 |
|
1990 |
39,200 |
|
|
|
|
|
1995 |
|
5,000 |
|
229,100 |
280,000 |
|
2002 |
67,735 |
|
|
435,200 |
496,500 |
|
2005 |
71,300 |
6,200 |
|
|
|
|
2013 |
|
|
897,000 |
|
|
*Aden / South Yemen only
Railways; First railway 1916 Aden to Al Khudad, 46 kilometres; built by the British to assist� in World War One against Ottoman Turkey.
0 (1980)
Electronic communications, Radio broadcasts began in the 1940s, under the British colonial administration. TV began 1964 (North Yemen); 1975 (South Yemen). Colour from 1981.
|
|
Telephones (landlines) |
Mobile Telephones |
Radios |
Televisions |
PCs |
Internet Users |
|
1948 |
1,059* |
|
512* |
|
|
|
|
1960 |
|
|
60,000* |
|
|
|
|
1980 |
16,960 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1986 |
|
|
|
240,000 |
|
|
|
1990 |
124,500 |
|
310,000 |
300,000 |
|
|
|
1992 |
|
1,550 |
|
|
|
|
|
1995 |
|
8,250 |
650,000 |
420,000 |
|
|
|
1996 |
|
|
|
|
15,000 |
|
|
1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
2,400 |
|
2000 |
346,700 |
32,000 |
1,200,000 |
|
35,000 |
15,000 |
|
2001 |
|
|
|
5,300,000 |
|
50,000 |
|
2004 |
|
|
|
|
300,000 |
220,000 |
|
2005 |
|
2,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
2006 |
968,400 |
2,000,000 |
|
|
|
270,000 |
|
2008 |
|
6,271,000 |
|
|
600,000 |
370,000 |
|
2010 |
1,100,000 |
8,310,000 |
|
|
|
2,350,000 |
|
2011 |
1,100,000 |
11,700,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
2016 |
1,213,000 |
17,536,000 |
|
|
|
6,733,000 |
|
2017 |
|
|
|
|
|
6,900,000 |
*Aden only
Tourism: Visitors to Yemen,
75,000 (1987)
52,000 (1990)
61,000 (1995)
73,000 (2000)
336,000 (2005)
1,061,000 (2006)
1,025,000 (2010)
1,017,500 (2014)
366,700 (2015)
815,000 (2010)
932,000 (2015)