Syrian refugee crisis enters ninth year

More than 5.6 million of Syria’s population are seeking refuge abroad, while another 5.7 million remain internally displaced from their homes, as the Syrian civil war enters its ninth year


Al-Hol: Camp population raised to 65,000 – 90 percent of them women and children – as people flee from remnants of so-called Islamic State in Baghouz


REGISTERED SYRIAN REFUGEES: By country of asylum, Mar 11, 2019

TURKEY 3,644,342
LEBANON 946,291
NORTH AFRICA 35,713
EGYPT 133,028
JORDAN 670,238
IRAQ 253,085

Refugee camps

Amman
Damascus
Homs
Aleppo
Raqqa
SYRIA
Baghouz
Mosul
Kirkuk
IRAN
Baghdad
SAUDI ARABIA

200km 125 miles


SYRIAN REFUGEE TRENDS: 2013-2019
Refugees in camps
Total urban, peri-urban* and rural population

6m
4m					5,320,961
2m					361,736
0
2013 	2014 	2015 	2016 	2017 	2018

Mar 11, 2019: Total registered Syrian refugees – 5,682,697


*Zones of transition from rural to urban land uses


Sources: IOM, UNHCR
© GRAPHIC NEWS