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Yemen People 1996
14,728,474 (July 1995 est.)
50% (female 3,551,953; male 3,776,358)
48% (female 3,505,735; male 3,508,229)
2% (female 216,210; male 169,989) (July 1995 est.)
44.85 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
8.01 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
3.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
58.2 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
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Life expectancy at birth:
7.15 children born/woman (1995 est.)
predominantly Arab; Afro-Arab concentrations in western coastal locations;
South Asians in southern regions; small European communities in major
metropolitan areas
Muslim including Sha'fi (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shi'a), small numbers of Jewish,
Christian, and Hindu
age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
no reliable estimates exist, most people are employed in agriculture and
herding or as expatriate laborers; services, construction, industry, and
commerce account for less than half of the labor force
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