Yemen 2019

Yearbook 2019

Yemen. According to the organization Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, since 2015 the civil war in Yemen has harvested 91,600 casualties. By mid-June, 11,900 had died just this year, but not all those who die due to malnutrition or illness, including cholera, have not been included. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), by mid-June, 725,000 people had contracted this disease so far this year. Of these, more than 1,100 died. Nearly one-third of those affected are children under five, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA). During the year it was also found that almost half a million children were life-threatening malnourished and that over two million were counted as acutely malnourished.

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The peace plan outlined at the Peace Conference in Sweden in December 2018 led to a ceasefire, albeit a fragile one, and in early February, talks between the parties continued, this time under the leadership of the outgoing chief of UN Yemen Observers, Patrick Cammaert. Because no country could be agreed to hold the meeting, the talks took place aboard a ship in the Red Sea. The crucial issue concerned the strategically important port city of al-Hudayda. This is where most of the international relief efforts come. Prison exchange was also on the agenda. A few weeks later, an agreement was reached that and how troops from both sides would be withdrawn at al-Hudayda. In the first instance, military forces would be moved not only from the ports in the al-Hudayda area but also from areas where there are facilities for humanitarian aid. In May, the Huthira rebels began their retreat from al-Hudayda. See cellphoneexplorer.com for Yemen country overview.

In August, new fighting erupted when separatist forces, previously fought side by side with the government troops, entered the presidential palace in the temporary capital of Aden. The internationally recognized government has its seat there, but Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi is in Saudi Arabia, and the palace was virtually empty and therefore no opposition was offered. The Saudi-led coalition immediately went into counter-attack, and a week later, the separatist forces had withdrawn, for another week later having regained full control of the city.

In early November, the government and separatists, ie representatives of South Yemen, signed an agreement that would put an end to the conflict and civil war in the country. The agreement, which had been drawn up by Saudi Arabia and was therefore renamed the Riyadh agreement, aimed at simply ending the conflict between the parties and subordinating their combined military forces to the Yemeni defense and home ministries. Two weeks later, Yemen’s Prime Minister Muin Abd al-Malik Said and four other ministers were able to return from Riyadh to Aden. However, President Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi remained in Saudi Arabia. This meant that towards the end of the year, there was once again only one enemy of the Saudi-backed and internationally recognized government, the Shiite Muslim Huthirbels with support from Iran.

Country data

Area: 527,968 km² (world ranking: 49)

Residents: 28,250,000

Population density: 54 per km² (as of 2017, world ranking: 50)

Capital: San`a ‘(Sana, Sanaa)

Official languages: Arabic

Gross domestic product: 18.2 billion US$; Real growth: -34.3%

Gross national product (GNP, per resident and year): n / a

Currency: 1 Yemen rial (Y. Rl) = 100 fils

Embassy

Rheinbabenallee 12, 14199 Berlin
Telephone 030 8973050,
Fax 030 89730562

Government
head of state: Abed Rabbo Mansur Hadi, Head of Government: Ahmed Obaid bin Dagher, Exterior: Khaled al-Yamani

National Day: 22.5. (Day of unification in 1990)

Administrative structure
21 districts and capital district

State and form of government
Constitution of 1991 repealed
Putsch on February 6, 2015
Parliament dissolved

Population: Yemenis, last census 2004: 19,721,643 inh.

Cities (with population): (as of 2004) San ‘a’ (Sana, Sanaa) 1,707,531 pop., ‘Adan (Aden) 588,938, Ta’izz (Taiz) 466,968, Al-Hudaydah (Hodeida) 409,994, Ibb 212,992, Al-Mukalla (Mukalla) 182,478

Religions: 99% Muslims (mostly Sunnis and Zaidi); Minorities of Jews, Hindus and Baha’i (as of 2006)

Languages: Arabic; South Arabic languages ​​(including Socotri on Socotra)

Employed persons by economic sector
no information

Unemployment (in% of all labor force): no information

Inflation rate (in%): 2017: 4.9%

Foreign trade: Import: 7.1 billion US $ (2017); Export: US $ 0.8 billion (2017)

Population 2019

According to CountryAAH, the population of Yemen in 2019 was 29,161,811, ranking number 48 in the world. The population growth rate was 2.330% yearly, and the population density was 55.2341 people per km².