Trade Openness / Yemen
Yemen Trade Openness
Yemen trade openness data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 56.08%.
COUNTRY: Yemen
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 13:45:06
GM ECONOMY RATING
Yemen · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
41 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
6.9 / 20
External stability
9.0 / 15
Financial robustness
6.0 / 15
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
1.5 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Yemen · trade openness data as percent of GDP.
Latest
56.08%
Previous
42.97%
Range avg.
51.81%
Rank
85
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CountryYemen
IndicatorTrade Openness
56.08%2018 · Rank 85
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Yemen recorded 56.08% for Trade Openness in 2018, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2017, the indicator increased by 13.11 percentage points, from 42.97% to 56.08%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (51.81%).
Across the five latest available observations (2014–2018), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 30.37% in 2015 and the high was 68.07% in 2009.