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Middle EastConflictSince 2014Deep-sourcedlow confidence

Yemen Humanitarian Crisis

Years of war have left over half the population needing aid, with famine risk and collapsed health services.

Severity score

72.2

Critical · default weighting

Trajectory

Worsening

How this is ranked

What this is

Yemen's war, beginning in 2014 and internationalised in 2015, produced one of the worst humanitarian crises of the century. Active frontline fighting has diminished but the economy, currency and health system remain devastated, and Red Sea escalation has renewed disruption. Most deaths are indirect, resulting from hunger, cholera and the collapse of medical care rather than direct combat.

Score breakdown

Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.

Loss of life

83

Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.

Lives negatively impacted

84

People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.

Financial cost

59

Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.

Environmental impact

35

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

92

Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.

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