Yemeni diaspora refers to Yemeni migrants and their descendants who, whether by choice or coercion, emigrated from Yemen and now reside in other countries.
Overseas Yemenis اليمنيون في الخارج
Flag of Yemen
Total population
~7,000,000
Regions with significant populations
Saudi Arabia
1,803,469 (2022 census) [1]
Egypt
700,000
Israel
400,000 (Ancestry)
India
300,000 (Ancestry)
United States
200,000
United Arab Emirates
100,000
United Kingdom
80,000
Madagascar
60,000
Turkey
40,000
Ethiopia
36,000
Jordan
32,000
Malaysia
20,000
Eritrea
18,000
Somalia
12,000
Canada
8,115
Pakistan
65,000
Djibouti
5,000
Netherlands
3,777
Oman
2,500
Languages
Yemeni Arabic, Yemenite Hebrew
Religion
Predominantly Islam
Significant minorities of Judaism.
There are 7 million Yemenis living outside Yemen, including 2 million in Saudi Arabia.[2][3] In the United Kingdom there are between 70,000 and 80,000 Yemenis. An estimated 10,000 Yemenis in Birmingham, making about 1% of the city's population. Over 200,000 Yemenis reside in the United States, and around 3,000 live in Italy. Other Yemenis also reside in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan,[4] Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey, as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and the former USSR.
Yemeni merchants and sailors often from the Hadhramaut and Aden regions, due to their historical maritime trading networks, were often influential in spreading Islam to regions in the Indian Ocean, especially the Swahili Coast, Madagascar, Southern India, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Indonesia, and Malaysia. A smaller number of modern-day Indonesians are of Yemeni descent, their original ancestors having left Yemen for the Southeast Asia over four centuries ago; Yemenis also contribute part of the small Muslim community in East Timor.[5] Similarly, many South Indian and Malagasy Muslims trace their ancestry back to Yemeni migrants, contributing to the Yemeni Indian population of roughly 300,000, as well as a population of roughly 60,000 Yemenis in Madagascar.
Due to the conflict in Yemen, many have migrated to the northern coasts of Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia. In 2017, Djibouti was home to over 40,000 Yemeni refugees.[6]
^"Saudi Arabia 2022 Census" (PDF). General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-04-28. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
^"Yemenis in Saudi Arabia: Less Money to Send Home, More Pressure to Leave". Sana'a Center For Strategic Studies. 2020-09-03. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
^"Saudi Arabia: Yemeni Workers at Risk of Mass Forced Returns". Human Rights Watch. 2021-08-31. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
^Salameh, Dalal; Wakim, Rebecca (translator) (19 September 2021). "Taking Refuge in Amman: "I Left My Roots in Yemen"". 7iber | حبر. Retrieved 2022-01-10. {{cite web}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
^Yemenis in the UK
^Adow, Mohammad (17 November 2017). "Yemenis find refuge in Africa's Djibouti". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
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