{"id":19145,"date":"2016-02-11T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19145"},"modified":"2016-02-11T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T11:07:20","slug":"the-stark-statistics-that-summarise-the-appalling-tragedy-of-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19145","title":{"rendered":"The stark statistics that summarise the appalling tragedy of Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>470,000 have been killed<\/li>\n<li>1.88 million have been wounded<\/li>\n<li>11.5% of the population has been killed or injured<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">6.36 million have been displaced internally<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">More than 4 million have been displaced\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">abroad<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">45% of the population has been displaced overall<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">About 13.8 million have lost their source of livelihood<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Consumer prices rose 53% last year<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Poverty increased by 85% in 2015 alone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Life expectancy has fallen from 70 in 2010 to 55.4 in 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Overall economic losses are estimated at $255 billion (\u00a3176 billion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These statistics are taken from a new report entitled &#8220;Confronting Fragmentation&#8221; produced by the Syrian Centre for Policy Research (SCPR).<\/p>\n<p>My heart bleeds especially for the people of Syria because, just a couple of weeks before the civil war began, we had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Levant.html#Syria\">a holiday in Syria<\/a> which included time in the currently besieged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Levant.html#Aleppo\">city of Aleppo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>470,000 have been killed 1.88 million have been wounded 11.5% of the population has been killed or injured 6.36 million have been displaced internally More than 4 million have been displaced\u00a0abroad 45% of the population has been displaced overall About 13.8 million have lost their source of livelihood Consumer prices rose 53% last year Poverty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19153,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions\/19153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}