Lebanon Official Camps243 Mar Elias 717 208 Burj el-Barajneh 20,156 5,396 113 2,235 42 2,288 65 Dekwaneh (Tel al-Zaatar) (Destroyed in the 1970s) 244 al-Nabatieh (Destroyed in the 1970s)245 9,333 1948 1956 4,570 1,281 8 1956 Chatila 11,259 2,914 53 1949 Ein el-Hilweh 62,519 16,394 562 1948/9 Mieh Mieh 6,040 1,679 46 1954 Al-Buss 12,785 3,474 96 1948 Rashidieh 36,097 9,410 329 1948 Burj al-Shamali 26,015 6,694 220 1948 Nahr al-Bared 46,961 11,341 590 1950 Beddawi 22,214 5,699 154 1955 Wavell (al-Jalil) 9,812 2,557 65 1948 Jisr al-Bashah 2,665 716 5 1952 1948 246 279,741 72,286 2,348 Al-Ma’ashouq 5,094 NA NA Shabiha 7,137 NA NA Al-Qasmia 3,892 NA NA Kufr Bada (Abu al-U’sod) 1,202 NA NA Al-U’rash (Adlon) 2,141 NA NA Shhim 2,925 NA NA 72,286 2,348 Sub-total Sub-total 22,391 Lebanon: Total 302,132 243 1948 Dbayeh Gouraudi Unofficial Camps247 8,598 1952 Population figures for unofficial camps in Lebanon are for 2001, updated based on a 3 percent annual growth until 2008, and 2.0 percent for the years 2009-2018. For 2019, the growth rate was 0 percent, while in 2020 it declined to -0.4 percent and in 2021 0.9 percent. In 2001, the population of al-Ma’ashouq was 3,447; Shabiha, 4,829; al-Qasmia, 2,634; KufrBada (Abu al-U’sod), 813; al-U’rash (Adlon), 1,448; and Shhim, 1,978. 244 Dikwaneh and al-Nabatieh were completely destroyed in the 1970s, but refugees who lived in these camps maintain their registration numbers with these centers until such a time as UNRWA’s new Refugee Registration Information System (RRIS) is developed. 245 Dikwaneh and al-Nabatieh were completely destroyed in the 1970s, but refugees who lived in these camps maintain their registration numbers with these centers until such a time as UNRWA’s new Refugee Registration Information System (RRIS) is developed. 246 The camp was evacuated, and residents were moved to Rashidieh camp. 247 Population figures for unofficial camps in Lebanon are for 2001, updated based on a 3 percent annual growth until 2008, and 2.0 percent for the years 2009-2018. For 2019, the growth rate was 0 percent, while in 2020 it declined to -0.4 percent and in 2021 0.9 percent. In 2001, the population of al-Ma’ashouq was 3,447; Shabiha, 4,829; al-Qasmia, 2,634; KufrBada (Abu al-U’sod), 813; al-U’rash (Adlon), 1,448; and Shhim, 1,978. 50