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Yemen, Rep.

41,773,878

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.19M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+112.9%from 19.62M
Life expectancy69.4 years2024
Fertility rate4.50births per woman · 2024
Urban population37.0%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanLow income

A country at every age

How Yemen, Rep. is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1441.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6456.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate34.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+29.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-16.29Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Yemen, Rep. look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 70.98M in 2050—74.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202440.58M
  2. 205070.98M
  3. 2100110.04M
Median age in 205024.1years
Births in 20501.59Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050362.59Kduring the year
Life expectancy72.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19605.53M
  2. 19707.07M
  3. 19809.54M
  4. 199013.89M
  5. 200019.62M
  6. 201026.75M
  7. 202036.13M
  8. 202541.77M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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