The General Administration of Labor force and Poverty is responsible for tracking the state of poverty in the country and building a database that will benefit policy makers and decision makers in developing programs and strategic plans to alleviate the severity of poverty affecting society.

Poverty is a state of incapacity and deprivation, which is incapacity represented in several forms of deprivation. Therefore, this deprivation could have fallen on an individual, individuals, family, group, or tribe, who possessed the necessary means to meet material and social protests, etc. The world around us enjoys scientific and technological progress and materially, while the status of Yemeni people  is getting worse  and they are besieged by hunger and poverty from all sides, as about half of the population in the Republic of Yemen suffered from poverty (12,613,886) in 2014 according to the results of the 2014 Household Budget Survey, and the level of poverty has even reached worse than that, as it exceeded 80% in the MICS6 multiple indicator cluster survey.