Fast Facts : Syria Crisis

Highlights

Total number of Syrian children in need of assistance inside Syria and in refugee-host countries:

Over 7.5 million children, 5 million children inside Syria, 2.5 million in neighbouring countries

INSIDE SYRIA 

• Total population
  19 million
•  Population in need of assistance 
  11.7 million
• People in hard-to-reach areas
  nearly 1.1 million
• Children in hard-to-reach areas
  360,000
•  Children in need of assistance
  5 million
•  Internally displaced people
  6.2 million
• Internally displaced children
  2.6 million

IN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

• Total registered refugees outside Syria
  over 5.6 million10
• Total registered refugee children outside Syria
  over 2.5 million11

Author(s)

UNICEF MENA

Publication date

November 2019

Languages

English, Arabic