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| - The Syrian conflict, now in its ninth year, has ravaged the lives of millions of people since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests. Since the launch of an offensive by Syrian troops on the country's last major rebel enclave in December 2019, around 900,000 people have been forced from their homes and shelters, according to the United Nations. Here are some figures from the nine years of conflict: The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict via a network of sources across Syria, says it has recorded the deaths of more than 380,000 people. According to its toll in January, those killed have included more than 115,000 civilians, of whom 22,000 were children. According to the World Health Organization, disability rates have increased in some parts of the country to reach up to 30 percent of the population -- double the world average. At least 45 percent of people wounded in the conflict will live with a permanent disability. According to the US NGO CARE, the conflict has caused the biggest population displacement since World War II. The fighting has pushed more than half the country's pre-war population of 23 million from their homes. The UN said in February 2020 the number of refugees abroad has reached 5.5 million, while more than 6 million people are displaced within Syria. Turkey, the main host country, has taken in over 3.5 million refugees. It is followed by Lebanon, which says it hosts 1.5 million Syrians against an estimated total population of four million. Less than one million of those are registered with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. Most of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in insecurity and depend on international aid. In Jordan, where the UNHCR says it has registered more than 650,000 Syrians, the government says it is hosting 1.3 million refugees. At least another 300,000 Syrians have taken refuge in Iraq and more than 130,000 in Egypt, the UN agency says. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have also headed to Europe, notably to Germany, where they account for the majority of asylum seekers. Since the start of the conflict, President Bashar al-Assad's regime has been accused of human rights abuses and of cases of torture, rape and summary executions. According to the Observatory, at least 60,000 people have died under torture or due to dire conditions in regime prisons. Half a million people have gone through regime jails since the outbreak of the war, it says. In 2017, Amnesty International said authorities had hanged around 13,000 people between 2011 and 2015 at the infamous Saydnaya prison near Damascus. Several thousand have died over the same period in prisons run by jihadists or other rebel groups, Amnesty says. Some 6.5 million people in Syria are unable to meet their food needs, the UN's World Food Programme says. With unemployment, power cuts and gas shortages, more than 80 percent of Syrians live under the poverty line, according to the UN, compared with 28 percent before the war. The oil and gas sector has since 2011 lost an estimated $74 billion, according to Syrian authorities. While the energy sector is the hardest hit, every sector has been damaged by the conflict. The UN estimates the overall cost in damages at nearly $400 billion. acm/eab/sw
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