Yemen
Everything Palanor holds about Yemen, in one place: 36 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
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Country Posture
What Yemen’s economy is doing
Momentum
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | — |
| Growth against its three-year average | — |
| Change in unemployment | 0.4 |
| Change in the employment rate | -0.2 |
| Export volume growth | — |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
2025Withheld: 1 of 5 core inputs reported for 2025.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue | — |
| Budget balance | — |
| Reserves, months of imports | — |
| Current account | — |
| Governance (WGI mean) | -1.87 |
| External debt | — |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | — |
| Change in inflation | — |
| Currency move against the dollar | — |
| Conflict deaths per million | 41.1 |
| Political stability | -2.51 |
| Private credit, three-year change | — |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | — |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Passport reach
Where a Yemen passport opens doors
The share of world GDP, outside Yemen itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.
Work
0.0%rank 114 of 199
the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 0 destinations in full.
Recorded changes
- 2025-06-09United States · visit: Visa required → Not admitted source
Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.
Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.
IMF World Economic Outlook
The IMF’s outlook for Yemen
The latest year before the October 2026 edition (often still an IMF estimate) and the IMF’s own projections. These are the IMF’s published forecasts, shown as published; Palanor does not project them further.
| Measure | 2025 | 2026 IMF f’cast | 2027 IMF f’cast | 2028 IMF f’cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real GDP growth% | -0.5 | -1.5 | — | 1.0 |
| Inflation, average consumer prices% | 20.2 | 5.0 | 17.0 | — |
| GDP, current US dollarsUS$ bn | 7.9 | 11.0 | 10.7 | — |
| GDP at purchasing-power parityintl $ bn | 29.9 | 30.4 | 31.4 | — |
| GDP per person, US dollarsUS$ | 417.8 | 566.8 | 535.2 | — |
| Current account balance% of GDP | -6.8 | -3.3 | -4.1 | — |
| Government net debt% of GDP | 114.2 | 110.3 | 109.0 | — |
| Government overall balance% of GDP | -3.9 | -0.4 | -0.0 | — |
| Government primary balance% of GDP | 0.9 | 4.3 | 4.3 | — |
| Government net interest paid% of GDP · Palanor calc. | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.4 | — |
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026. Provided by the IMF “as is” and free of charge from the IMF; the IMF does not endorse Palanor. Net interest paid is a Palanor calculation: the IMF's primary balance minus its overall balance.
Conflict
Organized violence
News
In the news
- Houthis claim Riyadh airport attack that killed 12, blame Saudis for Sanaa strike
Yemen's Houthis claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Riyadh's airport that killed 12 and wounded 309, while accusing Saudi Arabia of striking their own airport in Sanaa.
Palanor Wire2026-10-11negative · -attack -killed -strike
- At least 109 migrants die after boat capsizes off Djibouti
A boat carrying 305 migrants capsized off Djibouti while heading to Yemen, killing at least 109 people, including 15 children.
Palanor Wire2026-10-11neutral
- Houthis kill 12 in Riyadh airport attack
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a Saturday strike on King Khalid International Airport that killed at least 12 people and wounded over 300.
Palanor Wire2026-10-11negative · -kill -attack
- Iran attacks tankers and threatens to block Hormuz routes
Iran attacked tankers in the Persian Gulf and threatened to block more Hormuz routes while allied forces bombed Saudi airports and seized territory in Yemen.
Palanor Wire2026-10-09negative · -attacks -threatens
- Yemen forces retake Red Sea port from Houthis
Yemeni forces reclaimed a key Red Sea port city from Iran-backed Houthi forces in a major counteroffensive near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Palanor Wire2026-10-06neutral
- Remilitarization: Remilitarization accelerates across multiple fronts
US evacuates bombers from UK as Yemen pushes near Bab el-Mandeb and North Korea tests hypersonic missiles.
Palanor Wire2026-10-05neutral
- Egypt's Sisi says Saudi defence role would not include attack on Yemen reut.rs/4Bl0jeI
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-21positive · ~not include attack
- Water rationing, rubbish pile-up raise disease fears in Yemen's besieged Taiz reut.rs/4zKWQo6
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-21negative · -fears
- Yemen's Houthis deny launching drones towards Saudi Medina on Wednesday reut.rs/4ieUPti
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-21neutral
- Yemen's Houthis released footage said to show clashes between Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces near the city of Taiz. reut.rs/4k7X6cb
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-21negative · -clashes
- Yemeni and foreign officials are warning of potential catastrophe as the Houthi militia besieges Taiz, one of Yemen’s largest cities, leaving its residents with dwindling supplies of food, water and fuel.
The New York Times · Bluesky2026-10-20negative · -warning
- British fighter jets will be sent to help defend cities and critical infrastructure in Saudi Arabia amid a spike in missile and drone attacks from Houthi rebels in Yemen, the British government announced on Tuesday.
The New York Times · Bluesky2026-10-20negative · -attacks
- Death toll from Houthi attack on Yemen training camp rises to 73 reut.rs/3WAyWgC
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-20neutral · -attack +rises
- Un brutal ataque con misiles deja al menos 50 muertos y más de 100 heridos en un campamento militar en Yemen
La Nación (Argentina)2026-10-19neutral
Headlines that name Yemen, matched by name with fixed rules (a wrong match is worse than a missing one). Tone is read from each headline’s own words; no model reads or summarizes an article, and other publishers’ stories link out.
Signals
Every series about Yemen
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 36 in the Library.
Conflict and geopolitics2 of 6
- Yemen · Organized-Violence Deaths (UCDP, annual)69th percentile since 1989; highest since 2022; 1y +66.8%1,718 deaths2025
- Yemen · State-Based Conflict Deaths (UCDP, annual)64th percentile since 1989; highest since 2022; 1y +50.6%1,410 deaths2025
Climate and the physical world2 of 4
More about this country2
- Yemen · IMF Credit Outstanding · USD bn (IMF)record low since May 1990; 1y unchanged$0bn2026-09-01
- Yemen · IMF Credit Outstanding, % of GDPrecord low since 2014; 1y unchanged0% of GDP2025
Peers
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