Syria
Khan Eshieh
30,040
8,534
317
1949
Khan Dynoun
14,567
4,124
253
1949
Sbeineh
32,093
9,432
399
1958
9,748
433
Zeinab)
1967/8
Jaramana
23,242
7,144
242
1949
Dera’a
15,018
4,283
170
1950/1, 1967
Homs
18,014
5,190
118
1949
Hama
11,043
3,173
105
1949/50
Neirab
25,107
6,793
281
1948/50
203,437
58,421
2,318
Ein el-Tal (Hindrat)
6,350
NA
NA
1962
Al-Yarmouk
165,084
NA
NA
1956/7
Ramadani
1,466
NA
NA
1956
Latakia
9,319
NA
NA
1955/6
436,222
20,308
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Sub-total
Unofficial Camps249
34,313
Sub-total
182,219
Syria: Total
385,656
Grand Total
2,051,401
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Qabr Essit (As-Sayyida
Chapter
Official Camps
View of Dheisheh refugee camp, Bethlehem, West Bank, 1948, 1980s, 2000s (©UNRWA/BADIL)
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Similar to most of the refugee camps in Syria, thousands of refugees left the camps and the country seeking for job
opportunities and more safety. The population of Dera’a Camp includes the new part (Dera’a emergency) that was
built after the 1967 war to host 4,200 Palestinian Refugees; see UNRWA, ‘Dera’a Camp’ (UNRWA, 2022) <https://
www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/syria/deraa-camp> accessed 3 October 2022.
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The statistics for the unofficial camps in Syria are for 2002, including an annual population growth of 3 percent until
2008 and 1.6 percent for the years 2009-2011. The 2002 population of Ein el-Tal was 4,329; al-Yarmouk, 112,550;
Ramadani, 1,000; and Latakia 6,354. The specific data per camp for 2014 represents those of 2011 as no accurate
numbers are available due to the current crisis in Syria. For the years 2019-2021, the calculated growth rates was 0.7
percent for 2019, 2.5 percent in 2020 and 4.5 percent for 2021.
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