Yemen Fact Sheet, April – June 2023

Years of devastating and unrelenting conflict in Yemen has led to a protection and displacement crisis. As of June 2023, 21.6 million Yemenis (twothirds of the population) are dependent on humanitarian assistance, including 4.5 million IDPs, and 71,000 refugees and asylum-seekers.

Yemen is the only country in the Arabian Peninsula that is party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol since 1980 (north) and 1990 (south). While Yemen has generously hosted refugees for decades, it lacks a national legal framework for the protection of refugees.

Confronted with the growing challenge of internal displacement, Yemen adopted its 2013 National Policy for Addressing Internal Displacement in 2023.