Polity · 1919 CE – 1989 CE
North Yemen
- Peak recorded area
- 181,353 km²
- 1919 CE
- Data series
- 37
- 1950 CE–1989 CE
Overview
North Yemen is a term used to describe the Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962), the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990), and the regimes that preceded them and exercised sovereignty over that region of Yemen. Its capital was Sanaa from 1918 to 1948 and again from 1962 to 1990. Located in the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, the area of the region is approximately 136,000 square kilometers, and it used to have a population of about thirteen million people prior to the Yemeni unification.
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Territory
5 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 1989 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Intensity | 6ordinal1950 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Agriculture | 7ordinal1950 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing | 0ordinal1950 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering | 0ordinal1950 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Hunting | 0ordinal1950 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Husbandry | 3ordinal1950 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Military
6 of 15 series| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Arms Imports Tiv Million19 obs · 1952 CE–1988 CE | 80tiv_million1988 CE · SIPRI Arms Transfers TIV |
| Mil Equip Aircraft Utility16 obs · 1974 CE–1989 CE | 12count1989 CE · rDMC Military Capabilities v1.0 |
| Mil Equip Armoured Fighting Vehicles Attack16 obs · 1974 CE–1989 CE | 784count1989 CE · rDMC Military Capabilities v1.0 |
| Mil Equip Armoured Fighting Vehicles Transport16 obs · 1974 CE–1989 CE | 420count1989 CE · rDMC Military Capabilities v1.0 |
| Mil Equip Land Sea Defence Surface To Surface Artillery16 obs · 1974 CE–1989 CE | 729count1989 CE · rDMC Military Capabilities v1.0 |
| Mil Equip Aircraft Fighter15 obs · 1974 CE–1989 CE | 30count1989 CE · rDMC Military Capabilities v1.0 |
Governance
6 of 15 series| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Checks And Balances15 obs · 1975 CE–1989 CE | 1count1989 CE · Database of Political Institutions (DPI) 2023 |
| Executive Years In Office15 obs · 1975 CE–1989 CE | 11years1989 CE · Database of Political Institutions (DPI) 2023 |
| Govt Ideology Executive15 obs · 1975 CE–1989 CE | 0scale_1_31989 CE · Database of Political Institutions (DPI) 2023 |
| Largest Govt Party Vote Share15 obs · 1975 CE–1989 CE | 100percent1989 CE · Database of Political Institutions (DPI) 2023 |
| Largest Opposition Vote Share15 obs · 1975 CE–1989 CE | 0percent1989 CE · Database of Political Institutions (DPI) 2023 |
| Legislature Total Seats15 obs · 1975 CE–1989 CE | 1,000seats1989 CE · Database of Political Institutions (DPI) 2023 |
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Class Stratification | 4ordinal1950 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
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Database of Political Institutions (DPI) 2023DPI 2023
Cruz, C., Keefer, P. & Scartascini, C. (2023). Database of Political Institutions 2023. Inter-American Development Bank.
IDB open data, attribution
rDMC Military Capabilities v1.0v1.0
Reconstructed Data on Military Capabilities (rDMC), v1.0. Harvard Dataverse.
Academic use, attribution
SIPRI (2024). Arms Transfers Database (Trend-Indicator Values).
Free for non-commercial use, attribution
Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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North Yemen is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.