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Index / Peoples
  Yemen /
Peoples
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Ethnic groups
Figures in 1000. |
| Arabs |
19,500 |
92.0% |
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Himyarites |
N/A |
N/A |
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Tihamis |
N/A |
N/A |
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Akhdamis |
N/A |
N/A |
| Somalis |
800 |
3.7% |
| Mahra |
100 |
0.5% |
| Shahara |
40 |
0.5% |
| Indians and Pakistanis |
200 |
1.0% |
| Africans |
250 |
1.2% |
| Other |
300 |
1.4% |
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Statistical information to the ethnic groups of Yemen is highly uncertain. Two groups emerge as correctly dimensioned from the list to the right, Arabs in general and Mahras.
With the great influx of Negroids in Saudi Arabia, Yemen can claim to be one of the nations closest to the "original" Arabs. This is only partly true, as many peoples (of whom many resembles the "original" Arabs have passed through this region). But this is really no great change from the days of the "first" Arabs, migrations were even more normal then than now.
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