12.5 million Syrians now displaced from their homes Total number of displaced Syrians 14 million Asylum see kers in Europe
About six-in-ten Syrians are now displaced from their homes, a number unprecedented in recent history for a single country. The Syrian conflict has displaced millions of citizens since protests against the al-Assad government began more than five years ago.
Today, an estimated 12.5 million Syrians are displaced, up from less than 1 million in 2011, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of global refugee data. Displaced Syrians worldwide include those internally displaced within Syria, refugees living in neighboring countries or relocated to other countries like Canada and the U.S., and those in Europe awaiting a decision on their asylum application.
12.5 million Syrians now displaced from their homes  | Total number of displaced Syrians  | 14 million  | Asylum see kers in Europe  | 12  | 10  | Refugees in Turkey Lebanon,  | Refugees Jordan, Iraq Turkey and North Lebanon, Africa  | 8  | 6  | Internally displaced persons  | 2  | 2011  | 2012  | 2013  | 2014  | 2015  | 2016  | Note: Displaced Syrians living in other countries not shown due to their small  | numbe rs Number of internally living displaced pe rsons in 2016 is ass umed to be  | unchanged from end of 2015 In Europe, some major recipie nts of asylum seekers  | have notyet reported complete data on Syrian first-time asylum seekers for  | April-May 2016 All of Europe S asylum see kers are assumed to have stayed in  | Europe UNHCR estimates in 2016 for some non European destination countries  | of Syrian refugees in 2016 are assumed to be unchanged from 2014 figures  | provided refugees by UNHCR, except for EU countries, Norway, Switze rand, Canada figures and the  | U, S., where more current data were availa ble.  | Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Ce ntre, UNHCR (data accessed June 9,  | 2016), Eurostat (accessed June 9. 2016), Citize nship and Immigration Canada,  | 2016), and the U.S State Department.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 