2. Syria
Number of refugees: 4.9 million
Syria ranks second in our list of countries that produce the most refugees in the world. It is the second biggest refugee producing country in the world. Anyone who doesn’t live under a rock is, at least to a certain degree, aware of the civil war that has been causing utter mayhem in Syria since 2011. The most recent manifestation of this war has been seen in the city of Aleppo, where a ‘genocide’, as this activist describes it, has stolen the lives of many.
Syria, together with Afghanistan and Somalia, accounts for 54% of the world refugees that are under the UNHCR mandate. The 4.9 million refugees that originate from the Syrian Arab Republic are dispersed over a total of 120 countries, but the major hosts of the nation’s displaced people are in fact its neighboring countries: Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt. That is not to say that the rest of the world is ignorant to the misery of Syria as Germany and Sweden have also provided sanctuary to about 167,000 of these homeless people.
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