Yemen Humanitarian Crisis
Years of war have left over half the population needing aid, with famine risk and collapsed health services.
Severity score
61.6
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
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
Loss of life
76Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
84People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
40Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
35Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
45Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.