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An Introduction to Yemen
The Republic of Yemen is located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen is one of the oldest centres of civilization in the Near East. Between the 12th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of a succession of kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade, and later came under Ethiopian and Persian rule. Yemen was split into North and South until 1990 when the two countries were formally united. See full country profile.Latest Research News from Middle East
GOVERNMENT: Republic
AREA: 527,968 sq km
POPULATION: 22,858,238 (July 2010 est.)
MAJOR LANGUAGE: Arabic
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The Republic of Yemen is located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. Yemen is one of the oldest centres of civilization in the Near East. Between the 12th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of a succession of kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade, and later came under Ethiopian and Persian rule. Yemen was split into North and South until 1990 when the two countries were formally united.
Yemen has one of the world's highest birth rates; the average Yemeni woman bears six children. Because of this, the population is increasing by 700,000 every year.There is currently a very high level of tension between Yemen and the West due to the supposed presence of active Al Qaeda cells.
GDP: $58.04 billion (2009 est.)
Religions Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu
Currency: Rial (YER) - 1 GBP = 337.8 YER
Telephone Code: +967
Research Industry
Yemen has no MR association and no locally-based research providers as far as we know.According to the CIA World Factbook, Yemen exported $USD 5.812 billion worth of goods in 2009. Exports comprised crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish and liquefied natural gas, and went principally to China, Thailand, India, South Africa, Japan and UAE. Imports in the same year were worth $USD 7.521 billion, consisting of food and live animals, machinery and equipment, chemicals, mostly from China, UAE, India, Saudi Arabia, the US, Brazil, Turkey, Kuwait and France.
The CIA World Factbook notes that Yemen faces difficult long term challenges, including declining water resources and a high population growth rate: "Yemen is a low income country that is highly dependent on declining oil resources for revenue. Petroleum accounts for roughly 25% of GDP and 70% of government revenue. Annual real GDP growth has averaged 3-4% since 2000. Yemen has been largely unaffected by and insulated from the effects of the global economic crisis because its financial system is underdeveloped and not well integrated into the international community, but the drop in oil prices since mid-2008 slashed government oil revenues in 2009 by more than 50%, as compared to 2008.
Yemen has tried to counter the effects of its declining oil resources by diversifying its economy through an economic reform 'rogram initiated in 2006 that is designed to bolster non-oil sectors of the economy and foreign investment. In October 2009, Yemen exported its first liquefied natural gas as part of this diversification effort."
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