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The Myanmar Economic Monitor (MEM), published semiannually by the World Bank’s Myanmar office, has recently released its latest edition. This report covers the impact of the March earthquake, highlighting how the resulting economic aftershocks are compounding ongoing challenges for firms and households.

The MEM projects a 2.5 percent contraction in Myanmar's gross domestic product (GDP) for the 2025/26 fiscal year, primarily due to the earthquake's impact.

Production across all sectors has been disrupted by factory closures, supply chain constraints, labor shortages, and damage to infrastructure. Economic output for the current fiscal year is projected to be approximately US$2 billion lower due to the earthquake. The worst-affected regions, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw, are expected to experience about a third reduction in their output between April and September. However, a partial recovery is anticipated in the latter half of the fiscal year, supported by reconstruction efforts.

📝More details in the document.

Latest IDP Site Maps

Explore these 3 maps (data as of 31 March 2025), from UNOCHA.

ACLED Regional Overview: Asia-Pacific (6 June 2025)

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) released the regional overview for asia-pacific covering the month of May 2025, showing 896 recorded events in Myanmar.
📝 More on the ACLED website.

River Water Level Dashboard

The River Water Level Dashboard, hosted on the MIMU website, courtesy of Myanmar Geoinformatics Society, provides daily updates on water levels and warning statuses for major rivers, measured at various towns along the riverbanks.

📝Explore the dashboard.

Earthquake Response: Situation Report 7 (as of 31 May 2025)

More than two months after the destructive earthquakes hit central Myanmar on 28 March, the conditions remain dire, particularly in displacement sites across Mandalay and Sagaing, the epicentre of the quakes.

The early onset of the monsoon season has further intensified existing vulnerabilities. Poor drainage and inadequate sanitation in overcrowded displacement sites have led to cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) and skin infections, raising concerns about potential cholera, malaria, and dengue outbreaks..

📝Read more in the report.

Urban Poverty: Unpacking Yangon

UNDP has recently published a study, based on a survey conducted in July 2024 with 667 respondents, provides a detailed portrait of the deepening vulnerabilities affecting Yangon’s urban and peri-urban communities in the wake of economic downturn, political instability, displacement, and amid a backdrop of shrinking international aid and donor support that has further constrained response capacity.

The scale of urban poverty has risen dramatically in recent years. In 2017, 10% of Yangon’s urban population was classified as poor. By 2023, this figure had increased to 43%. Given Yangon’s total urban population of approximately 6.2 million people, this translates into an increase of about 2 million, with nearly 2.7 million individuals now living in poverty.

📝Read more in the report.

Latest Report on Garment and Apparel Workers

This UNDP report, titled “Stitches of Struggle and Hope: The Realities of Garment and Apparel Workers in Myanmar”, builds on 2022 study Livelihoods Hanging by a Thread to provide an updated picture of Myanmar’s garment workers, four years after the military takeover. Based on 667 interviews in Yangon and Bago, it captures how living and working conditions have further declined for a predominantly young, female, and migrant workforce. Most workers still earn below subsistence levels—averaging less than USD 100 per month—and regularly work long hours under insecure and often unsafe conditions.

📝Read more in the report.

Requesting your assessments and publications info

We are currently updating Assessment/Publication Dashboard and Data and Overview Report, which includes over 2,600 inputs from 199 agencies last year.

Please share your planned, ongoing, or completed assessments with us, following our Assessment and Publication Guidelines. This exercise serves as a resource to better coordinate information gathering initiatives, and to share plans, results, methodologies, data, and expertise.

For assistance, contact our focal person, Ko Zin Min Tun at [email protected] or call 09 7740 777 61 during office hours.

MIMU Excel Distance Learning

We are offering Excel Training by Distance Learning to MIMU partners who are implementing humanitarian and development activities in Rakhine State and Ayerwaddy Region.

Who can apply:

Myanmar nationals from UN Agencies, INGOs, LNGOs, MNGOs, CBOs, and Red Cross.
Staff needing Excel skills for information management, M&E, and programme tasks.

Course details:

Duration: 5 weeks (one hour daily)
Format: Self-paced with training materials available on the MIMU Training Resources page.
Certification: Completion of 4 assignments and a final exam required.

Application steps:

Please contact us via [email protected] by 11 June (Wednesday).
Selected applicants will be notified by 17 June (Tuesday) and invited to a pre-test on 24 June at 10:00 am.
Final selection results will be sent by 1 July, and the course will begin in the first week of July 2025.

Participation is limited to 15 people, selected based on their need and potential use of Excel skills.

Two months since the earthquake

People of Myanmar face escalating crisis amid earthquake devastation and protracted conflict.

The combined impacts of the recent earthquakes and ongoing challenges have deepened humanitarian needs across Myanmar, leaving millions in heightened vulnerability. A multisector initial rapid assessment conducted by the UN and its partners identified priority needs, including cash, food, construction materials and emergency shelter support across 44 earthquake-affected townships in Bago, Kayin, Mandalay, Nay Pyi Taw, Sagaing and Shan.

More than 75 per cent of the assessed localities have received assistance since the earthquakes, though continued support remains essential to address urgent needs.

📝Read more in the Myanmar Humanitarian Update No. 46 from UNOCHA.