Yemen, Rep.
Yemen, Rep. in numbers — 18 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Yemen, Rep. recorded GDP per capita: 634 (2018), ranking 207 of 212 worldwide; Population: 41.77 million (2025), ranking 37 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 69.4 (2024), ranking 156 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 8.10% (2014), ranking 31 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, Urban population shows the largest increase (+989%) and GDP growth the largest decrease (-88%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 6 of 18 comparable series are higher and 12 are lower.
Its population of 41.77 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.
11 of 18 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 7 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 41,773,878 | 2025 | +655.1% |
| Population growth | 2.89% | 2025 | +31.6% |
| Urban population | 37.03% | 2025 | +989.2% |
| Life expectancy | 69.44 | 2024 | +107.5% |
| Infant mortality | 33.8 | 2024 | -87.7% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.26 | 2024 | +13.2% |
| Labor participation | 33.1% | 2025 | -25.2% |
| Unemployment | 17.32% | 2025 | +105.5% |
| Electricity access | 86.3% | 2024 | +95.7% |
| Forest area | 1.04% | 2023 | 0.0% |
| Health spending | 9.7% | 2023 | +107.8% |
| GDP | 21,606,160,663.03 | 2018 | +70.9% |
| GDP per capita | 633.89 | 2018 | -30.4% |
| GDP growth | 0.75% | 2018 | -88.0% |
| Internet users | 17.49% | 2019 | — |
| Inflation | 8.1% | 2014 | -77.5% |
| GDP (PPP) | 92,755,605,480.13 | 2013 | +283.3% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 3,164.32 | 2013 | +81.6% |