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 20,308 248 Sub-total Unofficial Camps249 34,313 Sub-total 182,219 Syria: Total 385,656 Grand Total 2,051,401 2 Qabr Essit (As-Sayyida Chapter Official Camps View of Dheisheh refugee camp, Bethlehem, West Bank, 1948, 1980s, 2000s (©UNRWA/BADIL) 248 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. 249 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. 51