In 2025, Yemen’s displacement crisis continued to deepen rather than stabilize, layered on top of a decade-long emergency that has eroded services, livelihoods, and coping capacity. For millions of families, displacement was not a temporary disruption, but an ongoing reality shaped by rising poverty and weakened systems.
After more than a decade of conflict, Yemen remains one of the world’s most complex and protracted humanitarian crises. The country continues to face the compounded impacts of conflict, climate change, economic collapse, and the near-total breakdown of public services and institutions.
Conflict, economic decline and climatic shocks continue to erode the resilience of rural communities in Yemen. Many rural households have lost their productive capacities due to displacement, the collapse of agricultural infrastructure, limited access to inputs and services and the fragmentation of agrifood systems.
2025 has brought unprecedented challenges to Yemen. Drastic funding cuts have forced aid agencies to scale back many life-saving programmes. Seasonal floods have once again devastated communities, sweeping away people’s homes and belongings.
This factsheet highlights UNHCR Yemen’s Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) in 2025—small-scale, community-driven initiatives that promote social cohesion and self-reliance. In 2024, over 100 QIPs were implemented, including school rehabilitation, health center upgrades, flood mitigation, and vocational training.
UNICEF supported 3,127 Primary Health Care facilities out of 5,214 nationwide, representing 60% of Yemen's facilities, and delivered essential services to 1.5 million women and children, including maternal, newborn, and child health, despite ongoing humanitarian challenges.
The deaths of five children killed in Taiz in southwestern Yemen while playing football when unexploded ordnance (UXO) detonated has brought the number of child casualties of UXOs and landmines this year to at least 40, Save the Children said, calling for more funding for life-saving mine action activities.
Today marks 10 years since the start of conflict in Yemen. The devastating impacts of this conflict, a changing climate, a deteriorating economy and collapsing public services have led to a dire humanitarian situation, with over half of the population in need of assistance and protection services.
