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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The attempt to exclude, subvert, defame, or injure opposition voices is part of a larger effort by many self-interested parties to prevent a free and fair election … Yemen’s next election may not be a victory for democracy but its defeat.
In the remote country of Yemen, a determined and heroic democracy movement battles an alliance of Al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein’s generals, and a corrupt regime that wields all the tools of the state.
Chasing a few hundred followers of slain “rebel” cleric, Hussein al-Houthi, the Yemeni military has turned Saada, a Shia region, into a place of blood and tragedy.
Recently the Shiite religious establishment in Najaf, Iraq, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said the Yemeni government is waging “a kind of war” against Yemeni Zaidis.
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