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Yemen has the lowest HDI rank among the Arab states. [1] Several welfare programs are in place, but they have generally been considered inadequate to meet the needs of Yemen's impoverished citizens (estimated to exceed 45 percent of the total population).
In November 2006, at a meeting of Yemen's development partners, a total of $4.7 billion in grants and concessional loans was pledged for the period 2007–2010. Despite possessing significant oil and gas resources and a considerable amount of agriculturally productive land, Yemen remains one of the poorest of the world's low-income countries.
Definitions of the poverty line vary considerably among nations. For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations. Even among rich nations, the standards differ greatly. Thus, the numbers are not comparable among countries. Even when nations do use the same method, some issues may remain. [10]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The world's 26 poorest countries, home to 40% of the most poverty-stricken people, are more in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural ...
This is a list of countries by order of appearance in the Fragile States Index (formerly the Failed States Index) ... Yemen: 106.6: 2.3: 5.1: 5.1: 5.8: 6.9: 6.1 7
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
Income ratios include the pre-tax national income share held by top 10% of the population and the ratio of the upper bound value of the ninth decile (i.e. the 10% of people with highest income) to that of the upper bound value of the first decile (the ratio of the average income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%).
The first country to graduate from LDC status was Botswana in 1994. The second country was Cape Verde in 2007. [28] Maldives graduated to developing country status at the beginning of 2011, Samoa in 2014, [6] [29] Equatorial Guinea in 2017, [30] Vanuatu in December 2020, [31] Bhutan in December 2023, [32] and São Tomé and Príncipe in ...