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Table 1 The Geographical Distribution of Syrian Refugees in Turkey (2013)

From: The impact of Syrian refugees on natives’ labor market outcomes in Turkey: evidence from a quasi-experimental design

 

Number of refugees

Ratio of ref. to native pop. (%)

     

Ref. outside

 
  

Out of

 

Tot. ref. (a)/

camps (a)/

Tot. ref. (b)/

 

In camps (a)

camps (a)

Total (a)

population

population

population

Cities with camps

 Sanliurfa

73,295

45,000

118,295

6.6

2.5

9.4

 Gaziantep

32,696

90,000

122,696

6.7

4.9

11.9

 Kilis

27,247

10,000

37,247

29.0

7.8

38.1

 Hatay

15,404

60,000

75,404

5.0

4.0

12.6

 Kahramanmaras

14,970

10,000

24,970

2.3

0.9

4.1

 Adiyaman

9893

300

10,193

1.7

0.1

0.4

 Adana

9837

9500

19,337

0.9

0.4

2.3

 Osmaniye

8268

10,000

18,268

3.7

2.0

2.4

 Malatya

6440

200

6640

0.9

0.0

0.1

 Mardin

2336

35,000

37,336

4.8

4.5

9.0

  1. The table reports the figures for Syrian refugees in cities with camps. The data come from two different sources: (a) Syrian population as of June 2013. Data source is AFAD report “Syrian Refugees in Turkey, 2013 Field Survey Results” dated 2013. (b) Refugee population as of January 2014, for which the data are released by the Ministry of Internal affairs in August 2014. There are also significant amount of refugees in some cities without official camps. The names of these cities and the corresponding refugee shares within the city population can be listed as follows: Sirnak (4%), Batman (3.7%), Mersin (2.6%), Konya (2.2%) and Istanbul (2.3%). For the rest of the cities, the share of Syrian refugees is much below 1%