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Last month, the United Nations announced that it had stopped updating its official death toll from Syria’s conflict due to an inability to verify sources. The UN’s last estimate of over 100,000 people killed was released in late July 2013.
Here at Middle East Matters, I have continued to compile data from Syria’s brutal conflict. Our sources include the Violations Documentation Center in Syria (VDC), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), and the Syrian Revolution Martyr Database, as well as refugee numbers from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
To see just how dramatically the war has affected the Syrian people in the past twenty-one months since our first post, compare the figures below with the corresponding statistics for the months September 2013, May 2013, October 2012, August 2012, and June 2012. These figures speak themselves.
Length of Conflict
35 months
Deaths
Total estimated deaths: 140,041**
Total estimated opposition deaths: 88,519 – 97,505
Total estimated regime deaths: 12,046
Opposition military: 19,889 – 23,270
**Estimated deaths as of February 14, 2014, by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Deaths by Province
Rural Damascus: 20,461 – 23,406
UN Refugees – Registered or Waiting to be Registered
Total number of refugees registered or awaiting registration by the UN: 2,492,495
Total number of registered refugees: 2,443,132
Persons awaiting registration: 49,363
Turkey
Total number of registered refugees: 612,570
Persons awaiting registration: 0
Jordan
Total number of registered refugees: 573,425
Persons awaiting registration: 0
Lebanon
Total number of registered refugees: 882,204
Persons awaiting registration: 49,636
Iraq
Total number of registered refugees: 222,574
Persons awaiting registration: 0
Egypt
Total number of registered refugees: 134,014
Persons awaiting registration: 0
Aid
Total funding required for the Syria Regional Response Plan (RRP): $2,981,640,112
Total funded: $2,118,772,943
A closing note: During the recent failed spate of negotiations in Geneva, the casualty rate in Syria increased, with some 6,000 people killed over the duration of the internationally sponsored peace effort.
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