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1 Refugee Stories: Mapping a Crisis

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Refugee and IDP Data—2016

Received Most Asylum Applications (in 2016) • Germany 722,400 applicants • U.S. 262,000 • Italy 123,000 • Turkey 78,600 • France 78,400

Countries with Most IDPs • Colombia 7.4 million IDPs • Syria 6.3 million • Iraq 3.6 million • Democratic

Republic of 2.2 million the Congo

• Sudan 2.2 million

Top (5) Countries of Origin for Refugees • Syria 5.5 million refugees • Afghanistan 2.5 million • South Sudan 1.4 million • Somalia 1.0 million • Sudan 650,600

Top (5) Host Countries for Refugees • Turkey 2.9 million refugees • Pakistan 1.4 million • Lebanon 1.0 million • Iran 979,400 • Uganda 940,800

Refugees

Asylum Seekers

Internally Displaced People (IDPs)

At the end of 2016, 65.6 million people had been forcibly displaced from their homes:

40.3 million internally

displaced people

22.5 million refugees

2.8 million asylum seekers

There are more displaced people today than at any time since World War II.

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1 million Syrians

more than 6 million internally displaced

nearly 6 million fled the country

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Since 2011, of Syria’s population of 22 million:

More than HALF of all Syrians have left their homes:{

Spotlight: The Syrian Civil War Syrian Refugees • 1 in 4 refugees

worldwide are Syrian

• 87% of Syrian refugees live in Syria’s neighboring countries

Syrian Casualties • about 400,000 killed • over 1 million injured

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