Saudi Arabia vs Yemen: Economic Indicators Comparison

Saudi Arabia with a GDP of $786.5B ranked the 18th largest economy in the world, while Yemen ranked 105th with $26.9B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Saudi Arabia and Yemen ranked 124th vs 180th and 41st vs 172nd, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Saudi Arabia	Yemen
GDP	$786.5B	$26.9B
GDP growth, 1 year	2.2%	-2.7%
GDP growth, 5-years average	2.2%	-7.8%
Population	33M	28.3M
GDP per capita	$23k	$944
GDP per capita growth	0.61%	-4.97%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	1.58	195.84
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.42	0.37
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$56k	$2.4k
GNI, Atlas method	$727.8B	$37.7B
GNI per capita	$22k	$1.5k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$1.9T	$98.1B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$56k	$3.8k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Saudi Arabia	Yemen
Income Tax Rate	2.5%	N/A
Corporate Tax Rate	2.5%	N/A
Inflation, consumer prices	2.5%	41.8%
Inflation, GDP deflator	11.5%	47.2%
Unemployment	5.9%	12.9%
Economic Freedom Index	62.4	35
Personal Freedom Index	4.65	4.75
Human Freedom Index	5.66	5.4
Property Rights Index	64.6	22.5
Judical Effectiveness Index	72.3	20.1
Business Freedom Index	66.6	43.9
Fiscal Health Index	19.3	60.1
Labor Freedom Index	63.3	43.8
Investment Freedom Index	45	50
Financial Freedom Index	50	N/A
Trade Freedom Index	75.4	70
Monetary Freedom Index	81	42.6
Government Spending Index	61.8	96.5
Tax Burden Index	99.8	N/A
Government Integrity Index	49.6	21.9
Corruption Perceptions Index	49	14
Life expectancy at birth, years	74.9	66.1
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	3.2	8.5
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	28.8	21.5
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	1.3	6.7
International tourism, number of arrivals	15.3M	367k

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Saudi Arabia	Yemen
Central government debt, % of GDP	19.1%	63.2%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	N/A	26.1%
External debt stocks	N/A	$7B
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	4.9%
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	N/A	14.6%
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	13.4%	N/A
Gross savings, % of GDP	33.2%	N/A
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	24.2%	N/A
Total reserves including gold	$509.5B	$5.3B
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$4.2B	-$282.1M

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Saudi Arabia	Yemen
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	39.9%	N/A
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	26.7%	N/A
Current account balance (balance of payments)	$70.6B	-$2.4B
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	26.8%	N/A
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$290k	$7.7B
Personal remittances received	$334.9M	$3.4B
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	49.5%	28.7%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	2.2%	4%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	N/A	$204.9M
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	N/A	$2.5M
Expense, % of GDP	28%	N/A
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	35.7%	10.8%