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June 2025 Sees Further Deterioration of Food Insecurity
In June 2025, food insecurity worsened following a brief seasonal improvement in March during Ramadan. The share of households experiencing inadequate food consumption increased by about 16 percent in both SBA and GoY areas. Compared to June 2024, GoY areas experienced a significant deterioration, with a 7 percent rise in households with poor food consumption, while levels in SBA areas remained relatively stable. The rate of poor food consumption, a key indicator of severe food deprivation, reached a record high of 29.4 percent in GoY areas, signaling acute hunger. In SBA areas, poor food consumption also increased, reaching 21.4 percent, the highest level since December 2024.
The primary factors contributing to worsening food insecurity in GoY areas include the deepening economic crisis, characterized by high food prices due to the depreciation of the Yemeni rial, low public revenues, depleted foreign reserves, reduced seasonal agricultural and off-farm income and employment opportunities, and reduced humanitarian assistance. Furthermore, prolonged dry conditions and heatwaves have negatively impacted rangeland conditions and crops, exacerbating food security issues in both GoY and SBA areas. Since March 2024, food insecurity in GoY areas has exceeded 50 percent for most months. In SBA areas, food insecurity was comparatively lower. However, a larger proportion of households (72%) experienced a decline in their main income compared to last year, marking a 12 percent increase since March 2025. Those households reporting reduced income in June 2025 showed higher levels of inadequate food consumption compared to those whose income increased.
Approximately 57 percent of households faced shocks that affected their ability to earn income or produce food for self- consumption, marking a 2 percent increase from March 2025. More than half of the surveyed households experienced shocks this month, with a slightly higher incidence in GoY areas (58.1 percent) compared to SBA areas (57 percent). In addition to the widespread experience of a high disease burden, SBA areas had a higher occurrence of job losses, while GoY areas saw a significant rise in food prices.
It is recommended to immediately accelerate and scale up targeted emergency food and livelihood assistance in the most affected areas. Yemen has the third highest number of people facing emergency levels of acute food insecurity among all global hotspot countries.