ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan -- Jordan's Zaatari camp for Syrians fleeing their country's civil war is one of the largest refugee camps in the world.

Here's a look at the camp in numbers, provided by the United Nations refugee agency:

  • Residents: More than 100,000, or as many as in Flint, Michigan;
  • Households: 13,500 (capacity 15,000);
  • Area: 530 hectares;
  • Distance from the Syrian border: 12 kilometres;
  • Established: July 2012;
  • Districts: 12;
  • Trailers: 18,000;
  • Tents: 10,000 (though only about 4,000 families live in tents);
  • Shops: 2,500, of those 680 larger ones;
  • Schools: 3, with more than 16,000 students enrolled;
  • Boys moving goods in wheelbarrows for a small fee: More than 1,000;
  • Residents earning income: About 65 per cent;
  • Daily cost of operating the camp: At least $500,000;
  • Monthly electricity bill for the camp: $500,000;
  • Daily pita bread distribution: 500,000 pieces;
  • Daily number of water trucks: 350;
  • Daily number of sewage trucks: 200;
  • Daily water use per person: 45 litres;
  • Hospitals: 3, including one for maternal delivery;
  • Clinics at the camp : More than 10;
  • Babies born every month at the camp: More than 200;
  • Deaths: About 200 since the camp opened;
  • Number of refugees who have passed through Zaatari: 350,000 to 360,000.

 

And here are some other statistics on Syrian refugees:

  • Syrians who have fled their country: 2.1 million;
  • Syrian refugees living in Jordan: 550,000;
  • Of those, refugees living in Jordan's urban areas: 423,000.