Did You Know? Scope of the Iraqi Refugee Crisis

Human Rights First was recently cited in a Washington Post’s lead editorial urging policymakers to address the Iraqi refugee crisis. Click here to read it.

Total number of Iraqi refugees
At least 2.2 million, with another 2 million displaced inside Iraq
Number of Iraqis fleeing each day
2,000
Number of Iraqi refugees in Jordan
750,000
Number of Iraqi refugees in Syria Between
1,000,000 and 1,500,000
Number of Iraqi refugees accepted by the United States in 2007
190