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Myanmar Opium Survey 2025: Cultivation Reaches Ten-Year High

Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation has risen 17% to 53,100 hectares, with the largest increases in East Shan (32%) and Chin State (26%). South Shan remains the heaviest cultivation area, while Sagaing Region is included for the first time.

Review the latest opium survey report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The report, titled “Myanmar Opium Survey 2025: Cultivation, Production and Implications”, analyses data collected in Myanmar during the fourth growing season since 2021. 

The findings reflect the uncertainty the country faces after years of conflict and socio-economic instability. It also underscores that Myanmar has become the world’s main known source of illicit opium as cultivation continues to decline in Afghanistan.


Visualising the Situation of Women and Girls in Myanmar (Facts and Figures as of Nov 2025)

Did you know that there were around 4.8 million women and girls living in the hardest-hit areas of the Mar 2025 earthquake, including about 2.8 million in Mandalay Region alone?
 
We have started our contribution to the 16 Days campaign through daily social media posts based on facts and figures on the challenging situation of women and girls in Myanmar. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn and Viber for these and other updates.

Alongside these posts, we are sharing a new thematic infographic that brings these key figures together in one place and highlights some of the main patterns we see in the data.

This year’s thematic infographic draws from various local and international publications, as well as our own HDP Nexus 5W and Assessment/Publication tracking data, with available data as of Nov 2025.

We hope this brings much-needed attention to the situation of women and girls in Myanmar, not only as an informational resource but also for advocacy. To that end, you are more than welcome to share it with your colleagues and networks.

The infographic can be downloaded from the Gender page of the MIMU website.

Visualising Myanmar's Landmine / ERW Situation (Now in Myanmar Language)

The infographics that we released last week on

  • Townships with known landmine contamination and casualties in Myanmar
  • Changes in contaminated townships and annual casualties since 2021

are now available in Myanmar language.

Explore on the Mine Action page of the MIMU website..


 

Visualising Myanmar’s Landmine Situation

Did you know there are 211 townships in Myanmar with suspected landmine/ERW (Explosive Remnants of War) contamination recorded between 1999 and 2025, up from just 48 townships in the 1999 - 2020 period?
 
The annual map and infographic of townships with known landmine contamination and casualties in Myanmar have been updated. These were created in collaboration with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). They cover information such as the geographical distribution of reported casualties, types of explosive devices, and reported activities at the time of injury for the 2007 - 2024 period.

For the first time, an interactive infographic (along with a downloadable version) has been created to visualise changes in contaminated townships and annual casualty data, illustrating trends since 2021.


Market Analysis (September 2025)

The latest report from the Market Analysis Unit (MAU) is the Market Price Report (MPR) for September 2025, covering data from 37 townships across 9 states/regions in Myanmar. Data are collected from three vendors per product per market at the end of each month. For this round, prices were collected one week later than usual, in the first week of October.

The Market Analysis Unit is an independent project that provides donors, humanitarian responders, development practitioners and private sector actors in Myanmar with data and analysis to better understand the impacts of market developments, conflict and other crises on household purchasing power, supply chains, financial services, and labour markets.

Myanmar Humanitarian Access Snapshot (Sep 2025)

In September, delivery of assistance to an estimated 130,000 people was affected due to 108 access-related incidents reported across 13 states and regions. This marks a 22 per cent increase compared to August and remains above the monthly average for 2025. Rakhine had the highest number of reported incidents for the third consecutive month, followed by Southern Shan and Sagaing.

Overall, humanitarian operations continued to face challenges due to ongoing hostilities in 11 states and regions. Kachin, Rakhine, Sagaing, Eastern Bago, Kayah and Kayin collectively accounted for 65 percent of all reported incidents.

Explore the infographic.

Insights from the August 2025 Round of MIMU HDP Nexus 5W + Earthquake-related Activities

Supporting the comprehensive dashboards, maps, and summary datasets previously released, this targeted analysis offers insights and overview that support planning, coordination, and resource allocation decisions across Myanmar.

Here are some of the insights.

  • Activity concentration: 56.6% of ongoing activity records come from 20% of townships (337 townships with ongoing records, median 205 per township).
  • Organisational spread: The top 10% of organisations account for 80% of ongoing activity records.
  • Organisational Presence: Median 7 active organisations per township. Nyaungshwe in Shan (South) has the most at 42.
  • Sectors: Agriculture has the most ongoing activity records, followed by Health and Protection.
  • Active organisational presence pattern can partially be explained by Population, and People-in-Need.

Explore the interactive visualisation or download the static infographic.

In response to March 28, 2025 earthquake, this round included a specific question on whether the activities are related to earthquake. Early Recovery Cluster was also added to the Sector/Cluster list. 

Here are some of the highlights.

  • Share of activity records: 5.51% are earthquake-related; 64.6% of these are under implementation.
  • Sectors: WASH reports the most earthquake-related activity records, followed by Food and Protection. Early Recovery Cluster activity records are around 5.5%.
  • Organisations: 74 organisations report earthquake-related activities (36 INGOs, 17 NNGOs, 10 UN, and others). Food, Protection, and WASH Clusters/Sectors have the most reporting orgs.
  • Where: 81 townships across 8 states/regions report earthquake-related activities. Mandalay Region has the most organisations active on earthquake response.
  • Prioritised townships: 70 organisations report from 58 OCHA-prioritised townships.

Explore the interactive visualisation or download the static infographic.

Myanmar Subnational Population Statistics Dataset 2025

To support humanitarian/development operations, the Common Operational Dataset on Population Statistics (COD-PS) has been updated for 2025, and is the best available set of subnational population projections for Myanmar, disaggregated by gender, 5-year age groups and down to ADM-3 township level.

This dataset is available upon request through  data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-mmr

State/Region Maps from HDP Nexus 5W

Since last week, updated static maps have started rolling out, starting with breakdown by individual sector/cluster and types of organisations at the township level.

New maps released this week focus on individual states/regions and cover all activities at the township level. Download and explore the maps now on the MIMU website.

Rainfall Dashboard (Updated for Sep 2025)

The interactive rainfall dashboard from MIMU has been updated to include state/region level data from September 2025. 

Explore the dashboard to better understand the historical trends since 1981, regional variability, and predictive insights for effective planning and decision-making.