Yemen 
Facts
Population: 22,230,531 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 46.3% (male 5,239,003/female 5,047,301)
15-64 years: 51.1% (male 5,781,491/female 5,585,152)
65 years and over: 2.6% (male 281,121/female 296,463) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 3.461% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 42.67 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 8.05 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.038 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.035 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.948 male(s)/female
total population: 1.034 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 57.88 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 62.48 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 53.05 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 62.52 years
male: 60.61 years
female: 64.54 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 6.49 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 12,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Yemeni(s)
adjective: Yemeni.
Ethnic groups: predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans.
Religions: Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shi'a), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu.
Languages: Arabic.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 50.2%
male: 70.5%
female: 30% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $20.63 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2.6% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,000 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12.5%
industry: 43.8%
services: 43.7% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 5.759 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: note: most people are employed in agriculture and herding; services, construction, industry, and commerce account for less than one-fourth of the labor force.
Population below poverty line: 45.2% (2003).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 25.9% (2003).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 35% (2003 est.).
Budget: revenues: $7.314 billion
expenditures: $6.984 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: grain, fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat, coffee, cotton; dairy products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, camels), poultry; fish.
Industries: crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement; commercial ship repair.
Industrial production growth rate: 3% (2003 est.).
Electricity - production: 4.077 billion kWh (2004 est.).
Electricity - consumption: 3.792 billion kWh (2004 est.).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $8.214 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish.
Exports - partners: China 35.3%, India 16.2%, Thailand 11.9%, Japan 6.3%, South Korea 6.3%, Switzerland 5.5% (2005).
Imports: $5.042 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals.
Imports - partners: UAE 18.9%, Saudi Arabia 8.9%, Switzerland 8.6%, Kuwait 6.7%, China 6.1%, US 4.5% (2005).
Debt - external: $5.469 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $2.3 billion (2003-07 disbursements).
Currency (code): Yemeni rial (YER).
Exchange rates: Yemeni rials per US dollar - 197.18 (2006), 192.67 (2005), 184.78 (2004), 183.45 (2003), 175.63 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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Al-Akhbar
(Pro-government), Aden
(Independent), Aden
http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/
Al-Nahdu
(Independent weekly), Aden
(Islamist weekly), Aden
http://www.y.net.ye/sahwayem/
Al-Sharara
(Weekly Socialist Party organ), Aden
(government-owned), Sanaa
http://www.althawranews.net/
Al-Thawri
(Weekly Socialist Party), Aden
Yemen in the News
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President Saleh is scheduled to visit the United States in November. As the representative of the Yemeni people, Saleh deserves a great deal of respect and hospitality. Yet it has become increasingly apparent that the regime, under the total domination of President Saleh, is engaged in a wide variety of criminal activities.
Rampant corruption is a logical consequence of the concentration of power in Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh is the president, the head of the military, the chief judicial officer, the head of the ruling party, and essentially controls the parliament and the official media. He has been in power for 27 years.
In Yemen the desire for democracy, justice, and the rule of law runs deep, and a determined cadre of Yemeni intellectuals and reformers understand how to reform Yemen’s economy: decentralization of power, anti-corruption measures, judicial reform, focus on education, and an overhaul of the security forces.
Widespread popular protests in Yemen grabbed attention in the West even though some international journalists were prohibited from broadcasting video of the violence via satellite. … Much of the anger on Yemen’s streets is directed toward the government itself.
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