Syrian Refugees in the U.S.

The majority of refugees admitted to the U.S. so far this year have been women and children. As reported by PRI, 78% of the 8,000 admitted refugees are women and children. Children make of 58% of the admissions with about equal numbers of boys and girls.

For PRI, these numbers answer the questions posed by presidential hopeful Donald Trump who raised concerns that Syrian migrants would be exclusively “strong young men. You look at them. I’m saying, Where are the women? Where are the children?”

More importantly, the U.S. government is on track to admit the full 10,000 Syrian refugees it aimed to admit this year.

Of course, that’s a pretty paltry goal considering the work the rest of the world is doing to aid Syrian refugees. Check out these BBC charts on Europe’s refugee numbers, and these stats from Amnesty International about Syria’s affected neighbors.

-KitJ