Syria refugee crisis – a day in the life

A year after the largest camp for Syrian refugees, Zaatari, opened on the Jordanian border, the Guardian is devoting a day of coverage to the plight of those uprooted by the civil war, collecting refugees' stories and investigating the way they live
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Paul Owen
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 July 2013

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Latest total for Syrian refugees: 1,846,486

The UNHCR have just sent us the very latest figures on Syrian refugee movements, which show the total moving ever closer to 2 million, writes Mark Rice-Oxley.
These are the numbers of those registered and pending registration as of Tuesday.
Lebanon: 639,982
Jordan: 505,347
Turkey: 428,198
Iraq: 159,792
Egypt: 99,167
Elsewhere in north Africa: 14,000
The overall total is now 1,846,486.
Iraq is the only country where the number of refugees is falling. For more from UNHCR, go to http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/.
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