Refugees and asylum seekers living in Yemen were predominantly from Iraq, Somalia, Ethiopia,[14] and Syria.

[15] Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2013) (Data refer to national projections.

): [16] Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2017) (Data refer to national projections.

[18] In the Mahra area (the extreme east), several others Arabic languages (including Mehri) are spoken.

Other Yemenis also reside in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, 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.