Country · 21 regions
Where Yemen's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Yemen. By land, Ta`izz holds 2.3%. By people, it holds 13%. Hadramawt goes the other way, from 37% of the land to 5.0% of the people. By GDP, Amanat Al Asimah punches above its population: 9.5% of the people, 16% of the economy.
GDP for Yemen is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ta`izz | 2.3 | 13 | 13 |
| Al Hudaydah | 3.4 | 12 | 10 |
| Ibb | 1.1 | 11 | 12 |
| Amanat Al Asimah | 0.10 | 9.5 | 16 |
| Hajjah | 1.9 | 7.4 | 6.9 |
| Dhamar | 1.7 | 6.3 | 4.5 |
| Hadramawt | 37 | 5.0 | 4.8 |
| Sana'a | 2.6 | 4.7 | 5.3 |
| Amran | 1.9 | 4.2 | 3.5 |
| Lahij | 2.8 | 3.6 | 2.8 |
| Sa`dah | 3.0 | 3.4 | 4.4 |
| `Adan | 0.10 | 3.2 | 6.1 |
| Al Bayda' | 2.0 | 2.7 | 2.2 |
| Al Dali' | 0.90 | 2.3 | 1.1 |
| Shabwah | 8.5 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| Abyan | 3.9 | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| Al Mahwit | 0.40 | 2.1 | 1.4 |
| Al Jawf | 8.1 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| Raymah | 0.30 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| Ma'rib | 3.9 | 1.2 | 0.70 |
| Al Mahrah | 14 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
How the map is made
Regions are drawn on an equal-area grid of about 1,000 blocks. For land, each region keeps the blocks its territory covers. For people and GDP, the country is reshaped so every region gets a whole number of blocks in proportion to its share (Hamilton's largest-remainder method), keeping neighbours next to each other. Then every block is matched to one block on the next map, so you watch the same thousand blocks rearrange.
Grids: popgrid by Josep Ferrer (MIT). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Population: national censuses where curated, GHS-POP 2025 (JRC, European Commission) elsewhere. GDP: Kummu et al. 2025 gridded GDP PPP (CC BY 4.0). Built by Crafter Station.