A boy displaced man looked out of a tent in a village outside Damascus on Tuesday (29/1). (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)
Geneva (Reuters)-around five thousand citizens took refuge in Syria from the conflict-ravaged homeland every day the overall number of refugees meanwhile has increased by 25 percent in the last month alone, the UN Refugee Agency, said Friday.
"Five thousand people now cross the border Syria every day," said Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for refugees, reported AFP.
"We now have a 787 thousand refugees who are registered or pending listing," he told reporters in Geneva, while noting that the figure is still on the rise.
The largest number of displaced to Lebanon, which has been holding around almost 270 thousand of refugees Syria. Then Jordan is in second place with about 250 thousand refugees Syria.
About 180 thousand citizens of Syria has fled to Turkey, and about 85 thousand fled to Iraq.
For countries not bordering Syria, Egypt ranked at the top with 15 thousand refugees accommodating, while another approximately 6300 the rest scattered throughout the countries of North Africa.
Edwards said that overall, the number of refugees has increased by a quarter in January, with the rise of 150 thousand on a total number of 600 thousand refugees recorded at the end of December.
The UN estimates that more than 60,000 people have been killed since a revolt against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. (G003/S012)
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