$1.2 trillion: economic cost of 10 years of war, according to the World Vision charity.
98%: devaluation of the Syrian pound to the $ on the black market over the past decade.
33 times higher: food prices across the country, compared to the 5 years pre-war average, UN.
12.4 million people inside Syria are struggling to find enough food each day, the World Food Programme says.
More than 60 percent of children in Syria are facing hunger, British charity Save the Children says.
Two million: Syrians estimated to live in extreme poverty, the UN says.
Over 2.4 million children inside of Syria are out of school, UNICEF says.
70 percent of healthcare workers have fled the conflict, while only 58 percent of hospitals are fully functional, the UN says.
Two out of three families report that they cannot meet their basic needs.
More than half a million children under five in Syria suffer from stunting as a result of chronic malnutrition, according to the UN.
Since 2011, nearly 12,000 children were verified as killed or injured in Syria, that’s 1 child every 8 hours over the past 10 years As we all know, these are children that the UN was able to verify as having been killed or injured.
According to verified data, between 2011 and 2020, more than 5,700 children – some as young as seven years old – were recruited into the fighting. In the same period (2011-2020) more than 1,300 education and medical facilities have come under attack, including the people working there.
Nearly five million children were born inside Syria over the past ten years, with an additional one million children being born outside as refugees in Syria’s neighboring country, and these are millions of children who know nothing but death and displacement and destruction.
Education now is facing one of the largest crises in recent history, some 3.5 million children out of school, including 40 per cent of those are girls.
Child life expectancy in Syria has dropped by a shocking 13 years.
By 2017 in three Syrian cities alone, over 1·2 million housing units were damaged and more than 400 000 were destroyed. This extensive damage is largely due to heavy use of explosive weapons, particularly in urban settings, resulting in high contamination with explosive remnants of war.
PHR has documented the killing of 923 health workers in Syria since 2011 and systematic detention and torture of health workers who had provided aid to protesters.
Coverage for required child immunisations has dropped considerably during the conflict years.
War-related injury prevalence is unknown, but much of the 30% disability prevalence in Syria—double the global average—is probably attributable to war injuries.25 This is a serious challenge in a country with limited rehabilitation services.
