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Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi

Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi

🇾🇪Yemen

Rank #303
Score: 45
About Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi

Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (b.1954) is the chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (since April 2022). A longtime regime insider and former interior minister and deputy prime minister, al-Alimi leads the internationally recognised council attempting to coordinate the Anti-Houthi coalition’s politics, diplomacy and reconstruction planning amid ongoing civil conflict.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
Yemen HDI (country-level) — low HDI context5/10
Source: UNDP / Human Development country insights — Yemen (2022)
GDP per capita
Yemen GDP per capita — World Bank country data (contracted due to war)4/10
Source: World Bank — Yemen country data (GDP per capita) (2021)
Gini coefficient
Gini index (last available survey estimates; country-level inequality context)3/10
Source: World Bank / TheGlobalEconomy — Yemen Gini index (historic surveys) (2014)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio (ILO / World Bank modeled estimates; wartime disruption)2/5
Source: ILOSTAT / World Bank — Yemen labour indicators (2021)
Freedom index
Freedom House — Yemen country report (long-running conflict; limited political space)2/10
Source: Freedom House — Yemen Freedom in the World 2023 (2023)
Corruption index
Transparency International — Yemen CPI (very low scores; 2023 ranking near bottom)2/5
Source: Transparency International — Yemen country page (CPI 2023) (2023)

Derived Criminal Score
No widely reported final criminal convictions in public domain20/20
Source: Public record / press (no convictions) (2025)