Climate Change Impacts Explained in Real Time

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Syria's refugee crisis in numbers

 Syria

More than 4 million refugees from Syria (95%) are in just five countries Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.

Around 220,000 people have been killed and 12.8 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria.

More than 50% of Syria’s population is currently displaced

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