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IndicatorYEMYemen, Rep.Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.19rank #140
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile14.7rank #199
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.04rank #146
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.03rank #155
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.22rank #126
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile14.9rank #199
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.19rank #140
Military spending% GDP4%rank #15
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.07rank #136
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile18.9rank #204
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile29.9rank #193
Rule of Law0-100 percentile24.2rank #203
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.07rank #150
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.13rank #145
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.04rank #146
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile27.1rank #193
Women in parliament% seats0%rank #170
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.16rank #145
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment31.6%rank #54
Agriculture value added% GDP28.7%rank #13
Annual working hours per workerhours1,382.1rank #127
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker96,031rank #108
Current account balance% GDP-7.7%rank #146
Employment-to-population ratio%27.2%rank #180
External debt stocks% GNI33.5%rank #40
FDI net inflows% GDP-1.3%rank #181
GDPcurrent US$21.61Brank #114
GDP growth%0.75%rank #180
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$633.9rank #202
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $1,018.2rank #191
Gross capital formation% GDP6.2%rank #174
Gross savings% GDP-4.5%rank #163
High-technology exports% manuf. exports4.8%rank #96
Human capital indexindex1.8rank #122
Industry value added% GDP25.4%rank #87
Inflation%8.1%rank #172
Labour force participation rate%33%rank #179
Personal remittances received% GDP12%rank #19
Trade openness% GDP56.1%rank #138
Unemployment% labor force17.3%rank #171
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%17.4%rank #171
Vulnerable employment% employment45.6%rank #124
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2432.6%rank #165
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2432.7%rank #165
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop75%rank #144
Basic sanitation access% pop63.1%rank #135
Child mortalityper 1003.8rank #115
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal1,810.5rank #176
DTP3 immunization coverage%42%rank #43
Health spending% GDP9.7%rank #31
Infant mortalityper 1k births33.8rank #115
Life expectancyyears69.4rank #156
Maternal mortalityper 100k118rank #62
Measles immunization% children41%rank #43
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%41%rank #43
Physiciansper 1k0.1rank #53
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m346.8rank #186
Road traffic deathsper 100k29.4rank #116
Suicide mortality rateper 100k4.2rank #44
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k40rank #66
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births38.1rank #153
Education
Adult literacy%37.1%rank #6
Education spending% GDP5.2%rank #32
Expected years of schoolingyears7.5rank #188
Mean years of schoolingyears5.5rank #162
Primary completion rate% relevant age60.1%rank #138
Primary enrollment% gross77%rank #165
Secondary enrollment% gross43.7%rank #133
Tertiary enrollment% gross8.8%rank #113
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00034.4rank #12
Fertility ratebirths/woman4.5rank #13
Median age of populationyears18.2rank #193
Net migration rateper 1,000-0.13rank #101
Populationpeople41.77Mrank #37
Population growth%2.9%rank #15
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years72.7rank #164
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands70,976.4rank #29
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age77.7rank #27
Urban population%37%rank #168
Climate
CO₂ emissionst10.12Mrank #110
CO₂ per capitat0.25rank #188
Electricity access% pop86.3%rank #35
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation0%rank #144
Electricity from solar% generation11.2%rank #33
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita89.7rank #143
Forest area% land1%rank #195
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita0.87rank #12
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh592.4rank #136
Renewable electricity%11.2%rank #135
Renewable energy share%3.7%rank #149
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e34.1rank #86
Society
Asylum seekerspeople25,860rank #140
Extreme poverty% pop33.3%rank #47
Female labor participation%4.7%rank #182
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1001.3rank #163
Gender Development Indexratio0.41rank #111
Gender Inequality Index0-10.84rank #153
Gini indexindex36.7rank #43
Homicide rateper 100k5.8rank #84
Human Development Index0-10.47rank #151
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.33rank #132
Internally displaced personspeople4.8Mrank #34
Internet users% pop17.5%rank #168
Life satisfaction0-103.5rank #139
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.47rank #121
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.19rank #181
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.55rank #146
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.82rank #180
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.96rank #203
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people49,107rank #64
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people57,327rank #145
Youth NEET rate%46.3%rank #179
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year1,410rank #30
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths2,028rank #37
Hazard & exposure0-107.8rank #67
Human hazard & exposure0-109.5rank #72
INFORM risk score0-108.1rank #64
Lack of coping capacity0-108.1rank #68
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-106.5rank #56
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-109.2rank #66
Natural hazard & exposure0-104.5rank #32
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year1,718rank #39
Socio-economic vulnerability0-108.1rank #74
Vulnerability0-108.4rank #66
Vulnerable groups0-108.6rank #71
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