State · 1990 – present
Yemen
A state of 1990 – present — 36 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced South Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic. The atlas records 30 things within it — wars and battles 20 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 3 · famine and plague 3 · people 3. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 36 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 3
- the President of Yemen
- Most ground
- 464,700 km²
- in 1990
- Within it
- 30
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- South Yemen · replaces · 1967 – 1990
- Yemen Arab Republic · replaces · 1962 – 1990
Rulers
The line of President of Yemen - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | 1990 – 2012 | 22 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi | 2012 – 2022 | 10 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Rashad al-Alimi | 2022 – in office | in office since 2022 | still in office |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1990 – 2022. Only 32 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Yemen, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Hassan ibn Yahya | lived 1908 – 2003 |
| Ahmad Numan | lived 1909 – 1996 |
| Abdul Salam Sabrah | lived 1912 – 2012 |
| Hamoud al-Gayifi | lived 1918 – 1985 |
| Hassan al-Amri | lived 1920 – 1989 |
| Abdul Rahman al-Baidhani | lived 1926 – 2012 |
| Abdul Latif Dayfallah | lived 1930 – 2019 |
| Abdullah Kurshumi | lived 1932 – 2007 |
| Hassan Muhammad Makki | lived 1933 – 2016 |
| Talal Aklan | lived 1950 – … |
| Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas | 1990 – 1994 |
| Muhammad Said al-Attar | 1994 – 1994 |
| Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani | 1994 – 1997 |
| Faraj Said Bin Ghanem | 1997 – 1998 |
| Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani | 1998 – 2001 |
| Abdul Qadir Bajamal | 2001 – 2007 |
| Ali Muhammad Mujawar | 2007 – 2011 |
| Hasan al-Lawzi | 2011 – 2011 |
| Mohammed Basindawa | 2011 – 2014 |
| Khaled Bahah | 2014 – 2016 |
| Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour | 2016 – 2024 |
| Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher | 2016 – 2018 |
| Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed | 2018 – 2024 |
| Ahmed al-Rahawi | 2024 – 2025 |
| Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak | 2024 – 2025 |
| Salem Saleh bin Braik | 2025 – 2026 |
| Shaya al-Zindani | 2026 – … |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
464,700 km² in 1990, 464,700 km² in 2020; at its largest 464,700 km² in 1990. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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coat of arms, undatedEmblem of Yemen (2) · Public domain 
flag, from 1990Flag of Yemen · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19995 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Ali Abdullah Saleh · ruler · 1947 – 2017
- Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi · ruler · 1945 – present
- Rashad al-Alimi · ruler · 1954 – present
- Yemeni civil war · war · 1994
- Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen · war · 1998
2000 – 209925 rows · 18 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Yemeni civil war · war · 2014
- Yemeni revolution · unrest · 2011 – 2012
- Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war · battle · 2015
- Operation Prosperity Guardian · battle · 2023 – 2025
- US–UK airstrikes on Yemen · war · 2024
- Yemeni crisis · war · 2011
- COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen · plague · 2020
- July 2024 Houthi–Israel attacks · battle · 2024
and 17 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood36 years
stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held464,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 73% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century5.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 10 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1980 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1990, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q805 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.