Urban Population / Yemen
Yemen Urban Population
Yemen urban population data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 37.03%.
COUNTRY: Yemen
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-29 18:45:21
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 · urban population data as percent of GDP.
Latest
37.03%
Previous
36.81%
Range avg.
35.41%
Rank
97
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CountryYemen
IndicatorUrban Population
37.03%2025 · Rank 97
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Yemen recorded 37.03% for Urban Population in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.23 percentage points, from 36.81% to 37.03%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (35.41%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 32.95% in 2016 and the high was 37.03% in 2025.
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