Indicators of economy in Yemen

The essential economic performance of a country is reflected by the gross domestic product. So the total of all goods and services sold. Worldwide gross domestic product in 2019 was at about 10.915 US Dollar per capita. In contrast, the GDP in Yemen reached 757 US dollars per inhabitant, or 22.58 bn US Dollar in the whole country. Yemen is one of the smaller economies and is currently ranked 109. If this is calculated per inhabitant, then Yemen is in place 194.

Inflation in Yemen was in 2014 at around 8.10%. Within the EU, the average in the same year was 2.62%. In the United States, it was most recently 4.70%.

Compared with the USA, prices for daily consumer goods are around 100.0% lower.
The Corruption Perceptions Index for the public sector counts 16 and is compared to other countries very bad.


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