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Republic of Yemen

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    Country Name: Republic of Yemen World Fact Book

    Head of State: Abd Rabuh Mansur HADI

    Area: 527,968㎢

    Government type: Republic Cabinet Member:

    Capital: Sana'a

    National Day: 22 May, 1990

    Population: 27m. (July 2016)

    Population growth rate: 2.3% (2016)

    Population Density: 35 p/㎢

    Language: Arabic 93%

    Religion: Muslim(Suni 56%, Shia 44%), minor Jews, Christian and Hindu

    Ethnic groups: Predominantly Arab; but also Afro-Arab, South Asians, Europeans

    GDP - real growth rate: -4.2% (2016)

    GDP per capita (PPP): US$2,500 (2016)

    GDP composition: Agriculture 23.6%, Industry 8.9%, Service 67.5% (2016)

    Military expenditure/GDP: 3.97% (2016)

    Fiscal Year: 1.1 ~ 12.31

    Life expectancy: total population: 65.5 years, male: 63.4 years, female: 67.8 years (2016 est.)

    Illiteracy: total population: 29.9%, male: 14.9%, female: 45% (2016 est.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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 Yemen Study| KYC Newsletter

North Yemen became independent from the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A southern secessionist movement and brief civil war in 1994 was quickly subdued. In 2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to delineate their border. Fighting in the northwest between the government and the Huthis, a Zaydi Shia Muslim minority, continued intermittently from 2004 to 2010. The southern secessionist movement was revitalized in 2007.

Public rallies in Sana'a against then President SALIH - inspired by similar demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt - slowly built momentum starting in late January 2011 fueled by complaints over high unemployment, poor economic conditions, and corruption. By the following month, some protests had resulted in violence, and the demonstrations had spread to other major cities. By March the opposition had hardened its demands and was unifying behind calls for SALIH's immediate ouster. In April 2011, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in an attempt to mediate the crisis in Yemen, proposed the GGC Initiative, an agreement in which the president would step down in exchange for immunity from prosecution. SALIH's refusal to sign an agreement led to further violence. The UN Security Council passed Resolution 2014 in October 2011 calling for an end to the violence and completing a power transfer deal. In November 2011, SALIH signed the GCC Initiative to step down and to transfer some of his powers to Vice President Abd Rabuh Mansur HADI. Following HADI's uncontested election victory in February 2012, SALIH formally transferred his powers. In accordance with the GCC initiative, Yemen launched a National Dialogue Conference (NDC) in March 2013 to discuss key constitutional, political, and social issues. HADI concluded the NDC in January 2014 and planned to begin implementing subsequent steps in the transition process, including constitutional drafting, a constitutional referendum, and national elections. (CIA World Factbook)

  

    


Source: S.M. Hong, Islamic Economy & Finance (2009),  Middle Eastern Economy (1997), Middle Eastern Economics (1991), BBC, Country Profile, CIA, The World Fact Book & WIKIPEDIA , 2017, Population Density, GeographyIQ.com  and GeographyIQ.

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