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Executive
branch:
chief
of state:
President Ali Abdallah SALIH (since 22 May 1990, the former
president of North Yemen, assumed office upon the merger of
North and South Yemen); Vice President Maj. Gen. Abd al-Rab
Mansur al-HADI (since 3 October 1994)
head of government: Prime Minister Abd al-Qadir BA JAMAL
(since 4 April 2001)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president
on the advice of the prime minister
elections: president elected by direct, popular vote for
a seven-year term (recently extended from a five-year term by
constitutional amendment); election last held 23 September 1999
(next to be held September 2006); vice president appointed by
the president; prime minister and deputy prime ministers
appointed by the president
election results: Ali Abdallah SALIH elected president;
percent of vote - Ali Abdallah SALIH 96.3%, Najib Qahtan AL-SHAABI
3.7%; note - elections for governate and district councils were
held for the first time in February 2001 (next to be held
September 2006
Capital:
Sanaa
Population:
20,727,063
(July 2005 est.)
Languages:
Arabic
Location:
Middle
East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea,
between Oman and Saudi Arabia
Climate:
mostly
desert; hot and humid along west coast; temperate in western
mountains affected by seasonal monsoon; extraordinarily hot,
dry, harsh desert in east
Land boundaries:
total:
1,746 km
border countries: Oman 288 km, Saudi Arabia 1,458 km
Background:
North
Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The
British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern
port of Aden in the 19th century, withdrew in 1967 from what
became South Yemen. Three years later, the southern government
adopted a Marxist orientation. The massive exodus of hundreds of
thousands of Yemenis from the south to the north contributed to
two decades of hostility between the states. The two countries
were formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990. A
southern secessionist movement in 1994 was quickly subdued. In
2000, Saudi Arabia and Yemen agreed to a delimitation of their
border.
Administrative divisions:
19
governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Abyan, 'Adan, Ad
Dali', Al Bayda', Al Hudaydah, Al Jawf, Al Mahrah, Al Mahwit, 'Amran,
Dhamar, Hadramawt, Hajjah, Ibb, Lahij, Ma'rib, Sa'dah, San'a',
Shabwah, Ta'izz
note: for electoral and administrative purposes, the
capital city of Sanaa is treated as an additional governorate
International organization participation:
AFESD,
AMF, CAEU, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICFTU,
ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC,
IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITU, LAS, MIGA, MINUSTAH, NAM, OAS
(observer), OIC, ONUB, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO,
UNMIS, UNOCI, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTO
(observer)
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$17.2
billion (2005 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing
power parity - $800 (2005 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
13.3%
industry: 47.9%
services: 38.8% (2005 est.)
Agriculture
- products:
grain,
fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee,
cotton; dairy products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle,
camels), poultry; fish
Industries:
crude
oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of
cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts;
small aluminum products factory; cement; commercial ship repair
By
the
Courtesy of World
Fact Book - Yemen and
Wikipedia
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