Ethiopia – Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #3 Fiscal Year (FY) 2021

SITUATION AT A GLANCE

115 MILLION: Estimated Population of Ethiopia
UN – December 2020

23.8 MILLION: Estimated People in Need of Humanitarian Assistance in Ethiopia UN – February 2021

785,322: Number of Refugees in Ethiopia
UNHCR – June 2021

12.9 MILLION: Estimated People In Need of Emergency Food Assistance
IPC – January–June 2021

7.1 MILLION: Estimated People In Need of Nutrition Assistance
UN – February 2021

• Populations across areas of Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, and Somali regions will likely continue to experience Crisis—IPC 3—levels of acute food insecurity through January 2022 as a result of continued conflict and drought.
• As of April, more than 4 million IDPs were sheltering across Ethiopia, nearly double the 2.1 million IDPs identified at the beginning of 2021.
• Insecurity related to the ongoing crisis in Tigray Region is generating humanitarian needs elsewhere in Ethiopia, with violence displacing 54,000 people in Afar in mid-July.

Source: US Agency for International Development