ACOG - Yemen  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, between Oman and Saudi Arabia

Area:
total area: 527,970 sq km
land area: 527,970 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming

Land boundaries: total 1,746 km, Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia 1,458 km

Coastline: 1,906 km


People

Population: 14,728,474 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 50% (female 3,551,953; male 3,776,358)
15-64 years: 48% (female 3,505,735; male 3,508,229)
65 years and over: 2% (female 216,210; male 169,989)

Population growth rate: 4.02% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 44.85 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.01 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 3.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 58.2 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 62.51 years
male: 61.57 years
female: 63.5 years

Total fertility rate: 7.15 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: predominantly Arab; Afro-Arab concentrations in western coastal locations; South Asians in southern regions; small European communities in major metropolitanareas

Religions: Muslim including Sha'fi (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shi'a), small numbers ofJewish, Christian, and Hindu

Languages: Arabic

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 38%
male: 53%
female: 26%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Yemen
conventional short form: Yemen

Type: republic

Capital: Sanaa

Independence: 22 May 1990 Republic of Yemen was established on 22 May 1990 with the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic {Yemen (Sanaa) or North Yemen} and the Marxist-dominated People's Democratic Republic of Yemen {Yemen (Aden) or South Yemen}; previously North Yemen had become independent on NA November 1918 (from the Ottoman Empire) and South Yemen had become independent on30 November 1967 (from the UK)

Constitution: 16 May 1991


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $23.4 billion

National product real growth rate: -1.4%

National product per capita: $1,955

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 145%

Unemployment rate: 30%

Electricity:
capacity: 810,000 kW
production: 1.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 149 kWh



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