Syria five years on: Brutal civil war in numbers as conflict enters sixth year
Five years ago on 15 March 2011 protests erupted in Syria demanding the toppling of the Assad regime which had ruled over the country for 40 years. The crackdown on the revolution occurred in Deraa on 6 March 2011 but 15 March marks the day protesters from Aleppo and Damascus took to the streets in major protests.
Since 2011 the war in Syria has become a humanitarian calamity producing shock waves around the world. The fog of war and the scale of the crisis is such that its true cost is not known. Even the counting of the dead has become an estimate.
The war in Syria in numbers:
Number of dead: 250,000 – 470,000*
Number of displaced: 11.3 million (6.5 million in Syria and 4.8 million outside), UNHCR
Number of refugees in neighbouring countries -
Turkey: 2,715,789
Lebanon: 1,067,785
Jordan: 639,704
Iraq: 246,051
Egypt: 118,512
Economic damage: $275 billion, World Vision
Number of children out of school: 3 million, UNICEF
Children born in conflict: 3.7 million, UNICEF
Damage to cities (Aleppo, Daraa, Hama, Homs, Idlib, and Latakia): $3.6 billion to $4.5 billion, World Bank 2014
* According to the UN over 250,000 people have been killed and well over a million wounded .A report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, an independent think tank, said 470,000 deaths
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