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Yemen: Health & Education
Yemen has the shortest life length in the Middle East with only 55 years. The child mortality is as high as 11%, and only 38% has access to hospitals and health stations. There are few dangerous diseases, but the wide use of qat (mild narcotics which is allowed in some Western countries) represent a health problem.
Most Yemeni children attend school, but many stay in school for only a few years. Yemen has one the lowest literacy rates of the Middle East.
The two different school systems of the two parts of Yemen, are now being put under changes in order to make it into one system (closer to the northern than the southern). Most youths from the Yemeni social elite prefers to take their higher education abroad, and the university system of Yemen is little developed, and there are no more than 65,000 students in the whole country.
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By: Tore Kjeilen
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