Shafaqna English- More than a quarter of Syrians live in extreme poverty, the World Bank reported Saturday (25 May 2024).
The World Bank published two new reports on Syria, which found that “27 percent of Syrians – about 5.7 million individuals – live in extreme poverty”.
“Extreme poverty, while virtually non-existent before the conflict, affected more than one in four Syrians in 2022” and might have further deteriorated after a deadly earthquake last year, one of the reports said. The quake killed about 6,000 people in the country.
Sources: New Arab