I appreciate your mentioning Heather. I didn't want to single her out, but she has been such a great voice for the hungry around the world.
Yemen is a very difficult situation. We've just come out of the field with a new survey indicating the number of people who are in really serious trouble. Food insecurity, we expect by June, to jump from 15 million to 16 million to about 19 million, and that's with a population of about 30 million people inside Yemen, so you're literally talking about two thirds of the population who are food insecure and are struggling to get a meal on any given day.
Understand that Yemen is a country where at least 85% of its food comes from the outside. It is a terrible situation. We have about 4.5 to 5 million people whom we would say are at IPC level 4, and that's knocking on famine's door.
Because of the lack of funding, we're now cutting almost everybody at IPC level 3 and trying to reach as many as we can at IPC level 4, which means that everybody at IPC level 3 is going to be headed toward IPC level 4.
It is a very bad situation and, quite frankly, the Gulf States need to step up more because we don't have the monies we need. That is our number one problem. This is all about money, and the Gulf States are not stepping up and doing what they need to do to help take the pressure off Western donors in particular. Because of the crisis we're facing in so many different places around the world right now, if we could just get the Gulf States, particularly with oil prices being as high as they are, to help in a substantive way with the humanitarian fallout in the Gulf region, it would take incredible pressure off for us to be able to reach the shortfalls we're having in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and I can go on and on to Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, for example.