Yemen Acute Food Insecurity Classifications for 2020

Geospatial data from FEWS NET provides projected acute food insecurity classifications across Yemen for the year 2020. The dataset includes classifications such as Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency, and Famine, represented in vector formats. It was produced by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Map the projected spatial distribution of acute food insecurity classifications across Yemen for 2020.
• Analyze the prevalence of Crisis, Emergency, or Famine-level classifications in specific administrative regions.
• Integrate the classification polygons with population data to estimate the number of people in each food insecurity phase.
• Use the geospatial boundaries as a base layer for overlaying other humanitarian indicators like rainfall or market prices.

Strengths

• Data is provided in standard geospatial formats (GeoJSON, KML) for immediate use in GIS software.
• Classifications follow the internationally recognized IPC/CH acute food insecurity phase scale.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for broad reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset contains projected classifications, not ground-verified observations, which may differ from actual conditions.
• Specific row counts, sample sizes, and the exact number of geographic features are unknown.
• Data is for a single year (2020) and may not reflect current conditions without more recent updates.

Provenance

Source

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).

Collection Method

Projections based on integrated analysis of food security drivers.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Data was last updated in April 2026, but the underlying temporal coverage is for 2020.

Geography

Yemen