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Syrian Refugee Children by the Tragic Numbers

Juan Cole 11/30/2013

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The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has issued a new report on the plight of Syrian refugee children. The numbers are horrifying:

Population of Syria: 22 million

Number of Syrians made refugees in other countries by the civil war: 2.2 million

Number of Syrian refugee children: 1.1 million

Percentage of Syrian refugees who are children: 52%

Percentage of these children who are under the age of 12: 75%

Percentage of these children who said that a family member was dead or missing: 21%

Percentage of these children stuck at home for at least a week at a time: 29%

Percentage of Syrian refugee families in Jordan with at least one member working that depend in whole or part on the income generated by a child: 47%

Percentage of 270,000 school-age Syrian refugee children in Lebanon not attending school: 80%

Percentage of 187,675 school-aged Syrian refugee children in Jordan not attending school: 56%

Number of these children in Jordan and Lebanon living with no mother, father or other adult: 3,700

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BBC reports:

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Syria

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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