| Native Name: | Arabic: جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية |
| Conventional Long Name: | Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| Common Name: | Yemen, Democratic Republic of |
| Status: | Unrecognized state |
| National Anthem: | "United Republic" |
| Government Type: | Unitary Marxist–Leninist[1] one-party socialist republic |
| Area Km2: | 360,133 |
| Era: | Yemeni Civil War |
| Year Start: | May 1994 |
| Year End: | July 1994 |
| P1: | Yemen |
| Flag P1: | Flag of Yemen.svg |
| S1: | Yemen |
| Flag S1: | Flag of Yemen.svg |
| Common Languages: | Arabic |
| Capital: | Aden |
| Title Leader: | President |
| Leader1: | Ali Salim al-Beidh |
| Year Leader1: | 1994 |
| Title Deputy: | Prime Minister |
| Year Deputy1: | 1994 |
| Currency: | South Yemeni dinar |
The Democratic Republic of Yemen (), was a breakaway state that fought against the mainland Yemen in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War. It was declared in May 1994 and covered all of the former South Yemen.
The DRY, with its capital in Aden, was led by President Ali Salim al-Beidh and Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas and represented a response to the weakening position of the South in the civil war of 1994. The new state failed to receive international recognition. Its leaders, in addition to Yemeni Socialist Party figures such as al-Beidh and Attas, included some prominent personalities from South Yemeni history such as Abdallah al-Asnaj, who had been strenuously opposed to YSP one-party rule in the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.[2]
The secession followed several weeks of fighting, which began on 27 April and lasted from 21 May 1994 until 7 July 1994. The civil war ended by the DRY strongholds of Mukalla and Aden falling to government forces.