🇾🇪 Yemen National Debt Clock
Live tracker for Yemen government debt. The national debt currently stands at
approximately $9.6 billion, with no published growth-rate estimate. Debt-to-GDP: 135%. Per-citizen share: $237.
Debt of the internationally recognized government, which has taken on all of Yemen's pre-conflict external debt. The ratio is to the GDP of the areas it controls; the IMF puts the same debt at about 62% of the whole country's GDP, an estimate it calls highly uncertain. Excludes about $1.0 billion owed to the IMF for drawn SDR allocations. No growth estimate.
Among the 135 governments tracked here, Yemen ranks 9th by debt-to-GDP, 126th by total debt and 134th by debt per person.
About Yemen's National Debt
Yemen's prolonged civil war has shattered its economy and public finances, leaving debt and budget data highly unreliable amid a humanitarian crisis.
Yemen's debt-to-GDP ratio of 135% is among the highest in the world: higher than 93% of the 135 governments tracked here. No ratio is safe or dangerous on its own — whether a debt is sustainable depends on the interest rate on it, how fast the economy grows, the currency it is owed in and who holds it. By total government debt, Yemen ranks 126th of the 135 governments tracked here.
We do not currently publish a growth-rate estimate for Yemen, so its counter is held at the baseline figure. This reflects a gap in the underlying fiscal data, not a finding that the debt has stopped changing. We go through every government in this position, and what is missing for each. Each of Yemen's 41 million residents carries an individual share of approximately $237. That is below the world average of roughly $14,600 in government debt per person.
Figures are computed by Global Debt Clock by linear extrapolation from each country's baseline figure, named in the source line on this page (for most countries, the IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026). Actual debt changes through discrete bond issuances — these counters illustrate the approximate scale and pace of sovereign borrowing.
Yemen National Debt — Frequently Asked Questions
What is Yemen's national debt right now?
Yemen's national debt is approximately $9.6 billion as of October 27, 2026, with no published growth-rate estimate. Its debt-to-GDP ratio is 135% and each citizen's share is about $237.
How fast is Yemen's debt growing?
We do not currently publish a growth-rate estimate for Yemen. The IMF October 2026 dataset has no usable projection for it, so rather than show a placeholder figure we hold the counter at the baseline and say so.
What is Yemen's debt per capita?
Each of Yemen's 41 million residents carries a notional share of approximately $237 of the national debt.
What is Yemen's debt-to-GDP ratio?
Yemen's debt-to-GDP ratio is 135%. That is higher than 93% of the 135 governments tracked here.
Why is Yemen's government debt at this level?
Yemen's prolonged civil war has shattered its economy and public finances, leaving debt and budget data highly unreliable amid a humanitarian crisis.
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Data & Citation
Source: IMF Country Report No. 26/80 (April 2026), 2025 Article IV debt sustainability analysis: central government public and publicly guaranteed debt at end-June 2025 · baseline anchored .
Methodology: debt = 9,608,000,000 + 0 × seconds_since(2025-07-01)
Machine-readable data: /api/debt?c=ye (live JSON) · /data/debt.json (full dataset)
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