Why Is Yemen So Poor?

If Yemen is an oil producing country then why is it so poor? Ali Al-Ahmed from the Institute for Gulf Affairs explains.

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[zakoneandonly]

@Raddaaee i never really thought about things that way,i always knew why yemen is the most populated country in the arabian peninsula but i never thought that had anything to do with the money it had thanks

[Raddaaee]

@zakoneandonly

Yeah thats what I meant, the idea is that Saudi has the same population as Yemen but produces 50 times more Oil & in reality I doubt the average Saudi is 50 times richer than the average Yemeni

So if the Yemeni blue collar worker makes $200 a month the Saudi blue collar worker should make $10,000 a month which is not the case, so in a way the Yemeni govt is really less corrupt than people assume, its just the nation is so poor that its bad for everybody.

[zakoneandonly]

@Raddaaee actually yemen produces 285,000 barrels a day

[Raddaaee]

Lame!

Yemen is Poor because it barely produces 200,000 Barrels/year

While Saudi produces 10,000,0000 Barrels/year

With the same population, meaning the Saudi is 50 times richer than Yemen, we love Ali Saleh and hate democracy because it will have stupid liars like the idiot in the video try to run a nation thats naturally on poor (supposed to be poor)

Yemen will have to have a population of 500,000 to enjoy the same living standards of Saudis, so Ali Saleh is doing the right thing.

[polos505]

What are those people talking about ???? "oil producing country " Yemen has no damn oil, as a matter of fact, the little well of oil that Yemen has is predicted to by dry withing several years. According to the Yemeni gov't the oil production has decreases from 450K to 180K in the last four years.

Yemenis are too busy chewing Qat, this is the real problem. While most of the labor force are farmers, Yemen still imports more than 75% of it's food. What are the farmers doing ??? Planting Qat !!

[njguynorth80]

I wish my DH brothers from the North hear this!