Yemenis

Yemenis

Arabic: يمنيون
Flag of Yemen
Total population
Yemen : 31,461,438[1] Yemeni diaspora : 7,000,000 Total : 38,461,438
Regions with significant populations
Saudi Arabia	2,000,000
Egypt	700,000
Israel	435,000 (Ancestry)
India	300,000 (Ancestry)
United States	200,000
United Arab Emirates	100,000
United Kingdom	80,000
Eritrea	71,000
Madagascar	60,000
Turkey	40,000
Ethiopia	37,500
Jordan	32,000
Malaysia	20,000
Canada	8,115
Pakistan	5,000
Djibouti	5,000
Netherlands	3,777
Bahrain	?
Hungary	?
Languages
Arabic: Yemeni Arabic (majority) · Standard Arabic · Judeo-Yemeni (historically) Non-Arabic: Turkish · Somali
Religion
Predominantly Islam  · significant minorities of Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Other Arabs

Yemenis or Yemenites (Arabic: يمنيون) are the nationals of Yemen.

There is a system of social stratification in Yemen that was officially abolished at the creation of the Republic of Yemen in 1962 but, in practice, this system has not disappeared and Yemeni society is still organized around hierarchical ranks. The difference between ranks is manifested by descent and occupation and is consolidated by marriages between people of the same ranks.

There are five status groups. At the top of hierarchy, there are the religious elites, also called sada. These are then followed by the strata of judges (quad). The third hierarchical status is the qaba’il, who are the peasants who belong to tribes and who live mainly from agriculture and trading. The fourth group is called the mazayanah. This group is composed of people who had no land and provide different kinds of services such as butchers and craftsmen. Finally, at the bottom of the hierarchy are the slaves (a’bid) and even further below them Al-Akhdam, which means servants.^[2]

The Yemeni diaspora is largely concentrated in the United Kingdom, where between 70,000 and 80,000 Yemenis live. Over 20,000 Yemenis reside in the United States, and an additional 2,812 live in Italy. Other Yemenis also reside in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, as well as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Madagascar and the former USSR. A smaller number of modern-day Pakistanis are of Yemeni descent, their original ancestors having left Yemen for the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia over four centuries ago.^[3] 350,000 Yemenite Jews live in Israel. In 2015, due to the conflict in Yemen, many have migrated to the northern coasts of Djibouti, Madagascar and Somalia.

• Abu Bakr Salem, Yemeni singer
• Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist
• Anwar al-Awlaki, Yemeni-American imam
• Ali al-Jifri, Yemeni Islamic scholar
• Naseem Hamed, Yemeni-British Boxer
• Shoshana Damari, Yemeni-Israeli singer
• Ofra Haza, Yemeni-Israeli singer
• Zohar Argov, Yemeni-Israeli singer
• Haim Moshe, Yemeni-Israeli singer
• Yahya Saree, Yemeni spokesperson of Houthi movement
• Saadaldeen Talib, politician