COUNTRY PROFILE / YEMEN

Continent: Asia

Official name: Republic of Yemen

Nature of regime: Presidential

Head of State: Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi

Area: 527,970 km2

Currency: Yemeni Riyal

Population: 32,981,641 inhabitants (2021 Wordometer)

Capital: Sanaa

Main cities: Sanaa, Aden, Taiz, Hodeida, Mukalla

Official language: Arabic

Agreements and Conventions

Cote d’Ivoire does not maintain diplomatic relations with Yemen. Trade between Cote d’Ivoire and Yemen is very low.

A. Main exports of Cote d’Ivoire to Yemen: green coffee, cashew nuts, mass cotton, processed wood, textiles.

B. Main Imports from Yemen to Cote d’Ivoire : Main: rice, fish, plastics, iron and iron products, steel and articles of metal products and electrical machinery.

Source : DGE– DPPSE NP : Non Parvenu

Source : DGE– DPCEI

• The value of bilateral trade reached 2.35 billion of CFAF in 2022 against 912 million of CFAF in 2021;
• Over the period 2018-2022, the average value of Ivorian exports is estimated at 38 million of CFAF /year against 717.9 million of CFAF /year for imports;
• Over the period 2018-2022, the trade balance is in deficit for Cote d’Ivoire with the exception of 2020.