The Staggering Cost Of Syria's Four Year Civil War

Yarmouk residents gather to await food distribution from UNRWA in January 2014. Photo: UNRWA Archives

The Guardian: Syria's war: 80% in poverty, life expectancy cut by 20 years, $200bn lost



A United Nations Development Programme-backed report paints devastating picture of a country after four years of war


The war in Syria has plunged 80% of its people into poverty, reduced life expectancy by 20 years, and led to massive economic losses estimated at over $200 billion since the conflict began in 2010, according to a UN-backed report.


The Syrian Centre for Policy Research painted a devastating picture of the “systematic collapse and destruction” of Syria’s economic foundations in the report, saying the nation’s wealth, infrastructure, institutions and much of its workforce have been “obliterated.”


WNU Editor: Four years of civil war .... I never in my widest nightmares thought that this conflict would last that long. The Syrian Center for Policy Research report is here.

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