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Statistics on Uprooted Peoples - Middle East and North Africa


There were 5,931,000 refugees and asylum seekers in the Middle East and North Africa at the end of 2006, most of them fellow Middle Easterners/North Africans, along with other Africans and Afghans.

Principal Middle Eastern sources of refugees
Former Palestine
3,036,400
Iraq
1,687,800
Morocco
116,800

 

Countries hosting the largest number of refugees from other countries
Syria
1,329,300
Iran
1,025,000
Gaza Strip
1,017,000
Jordan
862,700
West Bank
722,000
Lebanon
294,200
Saudi Arabia
241,000
Egypt
172,900


Patients at Ali Arab Hospital
Patients at the CWS-sponsored Mobile Outreach clinic at the Ali Arab Hospital.
Photo: Development Office, Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem


Amira in front of mural
Amira (pictured) helped create this children's mural as part of a CWS-sponsored project in Kom Ghorab, one of Cairo's squatter neighborhoods.
Photo: Tammi Mott/CWS

Church World Service resettled 869 refugees from the Middle East in Fiscal Year 2007 (Oct. 1, 2006-Sept. 30, 2007).

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