Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Yemen
Yemen
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
20 140 697 -2.4 na na
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
148 122 164 138
Imports
107 82 142 116
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f.
Annual percentage change
2020 1 204 7 399
2010-2020 -17 -2
2020 0.01
Share in world total imports (%)
Share in world total exports (%)
2019 6 27
2020 -16 -29 2020 0.04
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 1.6
Fuels and mining products: 77.1
Agricultural products: 18
Fuels and mining products: 13.1
Manufactures: 0
Other: 21.3
Manufactures: 14.2
Other: 54.7
By main destination, % (2019)
By main origin, % (2019)
Egypt: 49.6
Turkey: 28
Oman: 10.5
Sudan: 9.3
Eritrea: 0.9
Other: 1.6
United Arab Emirates: 24 Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of: 6.5 Turkey: 5.4
China: 10.4 Oman: 5.5 Other: 48.2
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS1101 HS1103 HS2303 HS2306 HS1511
2019 . 15 8 0.3 0.1 0.1
Wheat or meslin flour Cereal groats, meal and pellets Residues of starch manufacture Solid residues from other oil Palm oil and its fractions
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1001 HS1701 HS1005 HS1006 HS1101
2019
Wheat and meslin Cane or beet sugar Maize (corn) Rice Wheat or meslin flour
547 238 164 141 127
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
20%
40%
Imports 60%
80%
0%
HS1101
HS1001
HS1103
HS1701
HS2303
HS1005
HS2306
HS1006
HS1511
HS1101
20%
40%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 23 1 837
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 -23 -5
2018 na na
2019 70 38
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS6117 HS4411 HS4412 HS4413 HS4410
Other made-up clothing accessories Fibreboard of ligneous materials Plywood, veneered panels Densified wood, in blocks Particle board and similar board
2019
Top imported products (Million US$)
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.03 0.02
HS2710 HS7213 HS8703 HS3004 HS8541
Value 2019
Petroleum oils, other than crude Bars and rods, hot-rolled Motor cars for transport of persons Medicaments in measured doses Diodes, transistors devices
1 334 104 94 93 70
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
394
10%
Imports 20%
0%
HS6117
HS2710
HS4411
HS7213
HS4412
HS8703
HS4413
HS3004
HS4410
HS8541
20%
40%
60%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2019 0 2 879
Annual percentage change
2010-2019 -66 -8
2018 na na
2019 -78 45
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Yemen TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2019
2010-2019
2018
2019
-18 -1
na na
34 37
241 1 848 2019 0.00
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019 0.03
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2016)
By main services item, % (2016)
Transport: 28.5 Other commercial services: 39.1
Travel: 32.4 Goods-related services: 0
Transport: 54.3 Other commercial services: 42.3
By main destination
Travel: 3.4 Goods-related services: 0
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
Annual percentage change
2020 na na
2010-2020 na na
2019 na na
2020 na na
Transport Yemen
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2016 88 788
Exports By sea (2016) By air (2016) By other (2015)
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
Value 42 46 0
2010-2016 -12 -5
Share (%)
Annual percentage change 2015 -66 -51
Imports By sea (2016) By air (2016) By other (2015)
47.4 52.6 0.0
2016 2 6
Value
Share (%)
757 31 0
96.1 3.9 0.0
Travel Yemen
200
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2016 100 49
2010-2016 -34 -20
Annual percentage change 2015 -61 -6
2016 -75 -32
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2016) 2.0
2.0
Other commercial services Exports Imports
ICTs Intellectual property
95.9
Value
Other business services
2016
2010-2016
121 614
0 -6
2015
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Annual percentage change
2010-2015
0 na
na na
2015
2016
-66 -61
59 43
2014
2015
na na
na na
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2019 Residents
60
Non-residents
15
Trademark applications, 2019 Total
75
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
4 331
Non-residents
1 359
Industrial design applications, 2019 Total
5 690
Residents
47
Non-residents
4
Total
51
395