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Yemen - Introduction 1992
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Background: North Yemen became independent of 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.


Yemen - Geography 1992
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Location

Geographic coordinates

Map reference

Area
Total: 527,970 km²
Land:
527,970 km²; includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab
Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen)

Comparative: slightly larger than twice the size of Wyoming

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

Coastline: 1,906 km

Maritime claims
Contiguous zone: North - 18 nm; South - 24 nm
Continental shelf: North - 200 meters (depth); South - edge of continental margin or 200 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Disputes:
undefined section of boundary with Saudi Arabia;
Administrative Line with Oman; there is a proposed treaty with Oman (which has not yet been formerly accepted) to settle the Yemeni-Omani boundary


Climate: mostly desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot, dry, harsh desert in east

Terrain: narrow coastal plain backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula

Elevation

Natural resources: crude oil, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west
Land use

Land use: arable land: 6%; permanent crops: NEGL%; meadows and pastures 30%; forest and woodland 7%; other 57%; includes irrigated NEGL%

Irrigated land

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Yemen - People 1992
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Population: 10,394,749 (July 1992), growth rate 3.3% (1992)

Nationality: noun - Yemeni(s; adjective - Yemeni

Ethnic groups: North - Arab 90%, Afro-Arab (mixed) 10%; South - almost all Arabs; a few Indians, Somalis, and Europeans

Languages: Arabic

Religions:
North - Muslim almost 100% (45% Sunni and 55% Zaydi Shi`a);
NEGL Jewish; South - Sunni Muslim, some Christian and Hindu


Demographic profile
Age structure

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate

Birth rate: 51 births/1000 population (1992)

Death rate: 16 deaths/1000 population (1992)

Net migration rate: -3 migrants/1000 population (1992)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues: subject to sand and dust storms in summer; scarcity of natural freshwater resources; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
Current issues note:
controls Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the
Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes


Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 118 deaths/1000 live births (1992)

Life expectancy at birth: 49 years male, 52 years female (1992)

Total fertility rate: 7.3 children born/woman (1992)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

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

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Yemen - Government 1992
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Country name
Conventional long form: Republic of Yemen

Government type: republic

Capital: Sanaa

Administrative divisions:
17 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Abyan, `Adan, Al Bayda', Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Mahrah, Al
Mahwit, Dhamar, Hadramawt, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij, Ma'rib, Sa`dah, San`a',
Shabwah, Ta`izz


Dependent areas

Independence:
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 on 30
November 1967 (from the UK); the union is to be solidified during a 30-month transition period, which coincides with the remainder of the five-year terms of both legislatures


National holiday: Proclamation of the Republic, 22 May (1990)

Constitution: 16 April 1991

Legal system: based on Islamic law, Turkish law, English common law, and local customary law; does not accept compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: universal at age 18
House of Representatives:
last held NA (next to be held NA November 1992); results - percent of vote NA; seats - (301); number of seats by party
NA; note - the 301 members of the new House of Representatives come from
North Yemen's Consultative Assembly (159 members), South Yemen's Supreme
People's Council (111 members), and appointments by the New Presidential
Council (31 members)

Communists: small number in North, greater but unknown number in South

Executive branch:
five-member Presidential Council (president, vice president, two members from northern Yemen and one member from southern
Yemen), prime minister


Legislative branch: unicameral House of Representatives

Judicial branch: North - State Security Court; South - Federal High Court

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation:
ACC, AFESD, AL, AMF, CAEU, ESCWA, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, IDA,
IDB, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, LORCS, NAM,
OIC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Diplomatic representation:
Ambassador Muhsin Ahmad al-AYNI; Chancery at
Suite 840, 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20,037; telephone (202) 965-4,760 or 4,761; there is a Yemeni Consulate General in Detroit and a
Consulate in San Francisco

US:
Ambassador Arthur H. HUGHES; Embassy at Dhahr Himyar Zone, Sheraton
Hotel District, Sanaa (mailing address is P. O. Box 22,347 Sanaa, Republic of
Yemen or Sanaa - Department of State, Washington, DC 20,521-6,330); telephone 967 (2) 238-842 through 238-852; FAX 967 (2) 251-563


Diplomatic representation

Flag descriptionflag of Yemen: three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black; similar to the flag of Syria which has two green stars and of Iraq which has three green stars (plus an Arabic inscription) in a horizontal line centered in the white band; also similar to the flag of Egypt which has a symbolic eagle centered in the white band

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


Yemen - Economy 1992
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Economy overview:
Whereas the northern city Sanaa is the political capital of a united Yemen, the southern city Aden, with its refinery and port facilities, is the economic and commercial capital. Future economic development depends heavily on Western-assisted development of promising oil resources. South
Yemen's willingness to merge stemmed partly from the steady decline in
Soviet economic support.

North: $606 million (f.o.b., 1989)
South: revenues and grants $435 million; expenditures $1.0 billion, including capital expenditure of $460 million (1988 est.)
GDP: exchange rate conversion - $5.3 billion, per capita $545; real growth rate NA% (1990 est.)

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate

Real gdp per capita

Gross national saving
Gdp composition by sector of origin

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products

Industries: crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; fishing; small aluminum products factory; cement
North: accounted for 26% of GDP and 70% of labor force; farm products - grain, fruits, vegetables, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee, cotton, dairy, poultry, meat, goat meat; not self-sufficient in grain
South: accounted for 17% of GNP and 45% of labor force; products - grain, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee, fish, livestock; fish and honey major exports; most food imported

Industrial production growth rate

Labor force: North - NA number of workers with agriculture and herding 70%, and expatriate laborers 30% (est.); South - 477,000 with agriculture 45.2%, services 21.2%, construction 13.4%, industry 10.6%, commerce and other 9.6% (1983)
Organized labor:
North - NA; South - 348,200 and the General
Confederation of Workers of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen had 35,000 members

Labor force

Unemployment rate

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: calendar year

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports
Commodoties: crude oil, cotton, coffee, hides, vegetables
Partners: FRG 29%, US 26%, Netherlands 12%
Partners South: $113.8 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

Imports
Commodoties: grain, consumer goods, crude oil, machinery, chemicals
Partners: USSR, UK, Ethiopia
Partners North: $1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1988)
Partners South: $553.9 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: North Yemeni riyals (YR) per US$1 - 12,1000 (June 1992), 12.0000 (1991), 9.7600 (1990), 9.7600 (January 1989), 9.7717 (1988), 10.3417 (1987; South Yemeni dinars (YD) per US$1 - 0.3454 (fixed rate)


Yemen - Energy 1992
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Electricity
Production: 700,000 kW capacity; 1,200 million kWh produced, 120 kWh per capita (1991)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Yemen - Communication 1992
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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Yemen - Military 1992
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Military expenditures
Percent of gdp:
exchange rate conversion - $1.06 billion, 20% of
GDP (1990)


Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Yemen - Transportation 1992
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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports:
46 total, 40 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways; none
with runways over 3,659 m; 20
with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 11
with runways 1,220-2,439 m


Heliports

Pipelines: crude oil 644 km, petroleum products 32 km

Railways

Roadways

Waterways

Merchant marine:
3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,309 GRT/6,568
DWT; includes 2 cargo, 1 petroleum tanker

Civil air: 11 major transport aircraft

Ports and terminals


Yemen - Transnational issues 1992
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Disputes international

Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs


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