Source: UN Children's Fund
Country: Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory, Syrian Arab Republic (the), Turkey
Within Syria, the UN estimates that 2.5 million people – close to half of them children – are affected by the conflict and 1.2 million are displaced. The actual figures may be still higher. Syrian children and adolescents face interruption of schooling, limited access to basic services, and psychosocial distress caused by witnessing violence and displacement. In Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, 282,363 Syrians are currently registered as refugees and 78,622 are awaiting registration (UNHCR, 25 October 2012). These numbers do not include the thousands of unregistered Syrian refugees, Iraqis and Palestinians who have fled Syria, nor the host families that receive them.
