The Association of Religion Data Archives' World Religion national profile for Yemen, compiling the World Religion Database's most recent (2025) figures: Shia Muslims at 54.66 percent of Yemen's population, with the demographic narrative stating estimates that Zaydis make up 45 percent and Shafi'i Sunnis 55 percent of the population, alongside supplementary reference to the U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom reporting.
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PublisherAssociation of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), Baylor University
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=244c
Source Typereference-database
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Reliability Tier2
An academic data clearinghouse's compiled presentation of the World Religion Database's Yemen estimate rather than the primary dataset itself; Yemen fields no religion census of its own, so every figure here is a demographic estimate at some remove. Cross-Tradition Connections
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