Yemen Today (8 photos) Yemen anciently was called by the Greeks the Arabia Felix, in Latin "happy" or "fortunate. However Today, Yemen is neither happy nor fortunate. 1.Yemen today is famous for the highest weapon ownership per capita, we have the second rank which puts us in a stiff competition with the US. “We own over 60.000,000 light guns which means 3 guns for every person” 2.Yemenis are proud of their family structure, and it’s a social norm that gives credit to big families. A normal family can have from 7 to 15 kids. With an annual increase of 3.1 percent, Yemen’s population is estimated to be 26 million in 2012, with two-thirds living in rural areas. Half the country’s population is under 15, and nearly 70 percent are under 25. Yemen has a big youth bulge, which has implications everywhere. Lack of work opportunities and unemployment made a great recipe of instability in the country and was the open for the revolution. 3.When you talk about the Middle East, you may think about deserts and arid lands but do you know that we grow about 27 different varieties of grapes, we grow 4 varieties of apples, 06 varieties of peaches, 05 different types of orange lots and lots of bananas, mangos, papaya, almonds and dates and almost every vegetable that we eat are locally produced and not imported. But we have problems in processing them into products that can be stored and sold and even exported to other countries. However this is not the only issue, Yemenis spend almost 78,000,000 USD per day just to get drugged and that’s by chewing Qat. Since farmers prefer to grow qat as a cash-crop, 85% of the agricultural lands and 30% of the water allocated for agriculture are consumed by qat plantation. 4. Today Yemen suffers from serious problems causing crisis of hunger and thirst and desertification. About 10,000,000 people who represent 44% of the total population are at risk of hunger and one child out of every three children suffers from malnutrition. 5. Yemen today is ranked the worst in the world and at the bottom in Global Gender Gap’s list in 2012, regarding economic participation and opportunity- health and survival- educational achievement and political empowerment.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:05:23 +0000
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