Hunger in Yemen

Over time Yemen has had severe issues with food and drinking water. Millions of people in Yemen are left hungry and considered food insecure and millions are also without safe drinking water. Economic issues in the country are the main cause of hunger/drinking water issues. According to the Relief Web, "The economic crisis -- a by-product of conflict -- and the depreciation of the currency have pushed food prices in 2021 to their highest levels since 2015, warn the United Nations agencies" (Kamal 2022). So the economic issues in Yemen go to affect the food and safety of the drinking water.

Those pie charts show how many of the millions of people in Yemen that are food insecure and without access to safe drinking water/sanitation. The lack of these essential things affects the people of Yemens way of life in a severely negative way. The pie charts are from 2017 and the numbers of food insecure people and those without access to safe drinking water, the numbers are much higher now. The World Food Programme states, "Despite ongoing humanitarian assistance, 17.4 million Yemenis are food insecure. The number of food insecure people is projected to go up to 19 million by December 2022" (WFP 2022). This quote shows how bad of an emergency crisis Yemen is with there drinking water and hunger issues.

These hunger issues obviously affect everyone but more importantly children and pregnant women in Yemen are severely affected and are not getting the nutrients they need to live a healthy life. The malnutrition rates are very bad in Yemen, known as the worst in the world. Again, the World Food Programme states, "Malnutrition rates among women and children in Yemen remain among the highest in the world, with 1.3 million pregnant or breastfeeding women and 2.2 million children under 5 requiring treatment for acute malnutrition" (WFP 2022).

Bibliography:

“Yemen: Food Crisis Could Become Famine This Year, Un Warns.” BBC News, BBC, 27 Jan. 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38767874.

“Yemen Emergency: World Food Programme.” UN World Food Programme, https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/yemen-emergency.