Yemen
Republic of Yemen
- Capital
- Sana'a
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 42 million
- Currency
- YER
- Area
- 527,968 km²
Across Yemen's 7 priced cities, one person needs about $998 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $254.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%22
- Safety20%39
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%71
- Connectivity10%3
- Cost10%76
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 15%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 20%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 2%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 39.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 60.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2013
- 5.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #145 worldwide
- 16
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- −2%
Cities in Yemen
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Sana (Sanaa) | 60 | 46.8 | $338 | — | — | 1.9M | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 2Dhamār | 58 | — | — | — | — | 160.1K | Low confidence |
| 3Al Mukalla | 55 | — | — | — | — | 595K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Ibb | 50 | 45.3 | $317 | $359 | 41.2 | 771.5K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 5Al Ḩudaydah | 48 | — | — | — | — | 734.7K | Low confidence |
| 6Ta'izz | 46 | 46.0 | — | $254 | 30.4 | 940.6K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 7Sanaa | 45 | 51.5 | $222 | $193 | 22.2 | 1.9M | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 8Al Mahwit | 43 | 51.4 | — | — | — | 10.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Aden | 42 | 73.8 | $329 | $465 | 37.0 | 1.1M | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 10Sa'dah | 37 | 51.4 | — | $316 | 34.9 | 51.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 11'ataq | 36 | — | — | — | — | 37.3K | Low confidence |
| 12Say'un | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |