The human toll
470,000
the number of Syrians killed during five years of fighting
400,000
the number of Syrians killed as a direct result of fighting
70,000
the number of lives lost from a lack of medicine, food, water, sanitation and shelter
11.5%
the percentage of the total Syrian population killed or injured since March 2011
1.9 million
the number of Syrian people wounded in the fighting
10.9
the mortality rate per thousand for Syrians in 2015, up from 6.5 in 2010
55.4 years
the life expectancy of a Syrian in 2016, down from age 70 in 2010
21%
the percentage by which the Syrian population has shrunk during the fighting
4,595,198
Syrians registered as refugees in January, 2016 by the UNHCR
8,000
Syrians were registered as refugees in January 2012
4,598,691
Syrians are registered as refugees and living beyond its borders
45%
the percentage of the Syrian population displaced by fighting
2,267,154
Syrian men are living now as refugees
2,331,536
Syrian women now living as refugees
2,503,549
Syrians are now living as refugees in Turkey
1,069,111
have fled Syria and now live as refugees in Lebanon
635,324
have fled Syria and now live as refugees in Jordan
245,022
have fled Syria and now live as refugees in Iraq
117,658
Syrians live in Cairo as refugees
28,027
Syrians are dispersed elsewhere across North Africa
6.36 million
Syrians are displaced from their homes and living rough elsewhere there
$255 billion
the estimated cost of five years’ of fighting on the Syrian economy
53%
the percentage increase on consumer prices in 2015 for Syrians
85%
of Syrians lived in poverty in 2015
13.8 million
Syrians have lost their livelihood during the fighting
$11 billion
in aid pledged during last week’s Syrian Donor Conference in London
$7.73 billion
in aid is needed by UN agencies immediately
$1.23 billion
needed by Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon to pay for aiding refugees
$1.4 billion
is needed now to help Syrian children
2,386,717
children are refugees living outside Syria
51.9%
of all refugees are children
700,000
children miss school because of the fighting in Syria
Sources — Guardian News & Media Ltd., UNHCR, agencies and Gulf News
