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Yemen

Yemen's best placing is 37th of 195 for population.

Best placing: #37Population
Top 10 placings: 0 / 12
Population: 41.8 million
Land area: 527,970 km²

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Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Yemen is.

Population

#37 of 195

41,773,878 people

16th in Asia · World Bank · 2025

Land area

#49 of 194

527,970 km² of land

12th in Asia · World Bank · 2023

Coastline

#56 of 151

1,906 km of coastline

16th in Asia · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Land area per person

#86 of 194

0.013 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Airports

#106 of 193

37 airports

24th in Asia · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population by area

#109 of 194

79.12 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

Forest

#136 of 194

5,490 km² of forest

31st in Asia · World Bank · 2023

Airports by area

#171 of 191

0.70 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Airports per person

#173 of 192

0.89 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest per person

#179 of 194

0.0001 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Rainfall

#166 of 179

167 mm of precipitation per year

36th in Asia · World Bank · 2022

Forest by area

#180 of 194

1.0 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

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