Ammon News - 3,162 Syrian refugees left Jordan during the first six months of 2024 to return to their country, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an increase of 63% compared to the same period in 2023.
19,729 Syrian refugees from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq returned to Syria in 2023, compared to 16,529 at the same time period in 2023, that is, an increase of 19.36%, the data said.
Jordan has hosted more than 1.3 million Syrians since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, including more than 628,000 Syrian refugees registered with UNHCR, as of the end of last June.
In 2023, the number of Syrian refugees returning to Syria from various countries hosting refugees reached 37,552, compared to 50,966 in 2022, 35,624 in 2021, 38,235 in 2020, and 94,971 in 2019.