Stage 2 Countries
Yemen and Bhutan
Bhutan
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Yemen
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The country has a median age of 22.3 years, with a life expectancy of 62.2 years (61 for males and 64.5 for females)
There are currently 1,070 males to every 1,000 females in the country.
Bhutan
Bhutan's economy is one of the world's smallest, it has grown rapidly in recent years.
Bhutan's economy is based on agriculture, forestry, tourism and the sale of hydroelectric power to India.
Transportation of goods in Bhutan is a problem because of how mountainous it is.
Yemen
Birth rate: 33.49/1000
Death rate: 7.23/1000
3.1%
The land consists most of steep and high mountains
crisscrossed by a network of swift rivers and at least sixty percent of the land area under forest cover.
Yemen
Yemen has one of the world's highest birth rates; the average Yemeni woman bears five children,
Bhutan
and according to June 2011 estimates, the population of Yemen is about 24 million.
Yemen's population is increasing by 700,000 every year.
Birth rate: 19.13/1000
Death rate: 7.1/1000
1.7%
Yemen is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the Arab World.
Its economy depends heavily on the
oil it products.
According to the World Bank, the number of doctors in Yemen rose by an average of more than 7% between 1995 and 2000, but as of 2004 there were still only three doctors per 10,000 persons.
In 2005 Yemen had only 6.1 hospital beds available per 10,000 persons. Health care services are particularly scarce in rural areas
According to 2009 estimates, life expectancy in Yemen is 63.27 years.
In the late 20th century Sana'a’s population grew rapidly, from roughly 55,000 in 1978 to more than 1 million in the early 21st century.Sana'a may be the first capital city in the world to run out of water
the government has committed to bring significant changes in the education system, thereby reducing illiteracy to less than 10% by 2025.