NLAID - Activity in Yemen

Information on Yemen

Birth rate 33.49 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 43.1% (2003) country comparison to the world: 2

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

Death rate 7.02 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification

Infant mortality rate
total 55.11 deaths/1,000 live births
male 59.7 deaths/1,000 live births
female 50.29 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Arabic (official)

Life expectancy at birth
total population 63.74 years
male 61.7 years
female 65.87 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 50.2%
male 70.5%
female 30% (2003 est.)

Maternal mortality rate 210 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 57

Natural resources petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west

Population
24,133,492 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 2.647% (2011 est.)

Religions Muslim including Shaf'i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 9 years
male 11 years
female 7 years (2005)

Promoting greater tolerance and moderation among Yemeni youth in 10 governorates through football-based TV and Radio Series and national outreach campaign

Project code NL-1-PPR-21665

Second phase of support to Reproductive Health Commodity Security in order to increase availability of commodities in order to address unmet need for Family Planning

Project code NL-1-PPR-12286

SAA Maternal and Newborns Health Programme

Project code NL-1-PPR-15849

Strengthening Yemen Women's Union organisational performance, impact and continuity, through consolidation of earlier support achievements through empowerment of YWU and with focus on further institutional and financial sustainability

Project code NL-1-PPR-15278

Support to MSIY to expand their FP/RH clinics, to support Midwives in Rural Areas and to develop Youth Friendly services and awareness raising

Project code NL-1-PPR-18151

To contribute to the national goal of increasing net enrolment retention, completion and achievement levels of all children, especially girls, by the year 2006.

Project code NL-1-PPR-1389

Humanitaire hulp aan IDPs en gastgemeenschappen in Noord Jemen

Project code NL-1-PPR-22072

Legal protection for women & children victems of violence

Project code NL-1-PPR-16897

Programme support to SFD's Small and Micro Enterprise Development with attention to financial and non-financial development services to small business, including women entrepreneurs

Project code NL-1-PPR-22011