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Description
Forced Dispersion: A Demographic Report on Human Status in Syria
This report diagnoses the population question in Syria before and during the crisis, by means of a rights-based participatory methodology. This diagnosis has involved a recalculation of some of the significant demographic indicators for the period prior to the crisis, including birth, mortality, and fertility rates, with one result being that population issues have been re-read from a different perspective. To overcome the lack of theoretical and applied studies and research during the crisis, this report used the results of a field multi-purpose survey. This survey was designed and implemented in order to achieve an in-depth understanding of the population status in the shadow of the crisis, together with the risks associated with its continuation, and to develop future alternatives toward ending the crisis and reducing its impact.
Table of Contents
The Report Team | 5
Acknowledgments | 6
Executive Summary | 7
Preface | 13
I. Methodology for the Human Status Reports Collected in Syria | 15
II. Literature Review of the Population Issue | 22
III. The Demographic Status in Syria before the Crisis| 29
a) The main population characteristics | 29
b) Reproductive health and fertility | 44
c) Morbidity and mortality | 50
d) Internal and external migration | 55
IV. The Demographic Status during the Crisis | 59
a) Demographic indicators and characteristics | 61
1) Population size and growth | 61
2) Fertility and reproductive health | 62
3) Changes in marriage and divorce trends | 68
4) Crude mortality rate | 70
5) Life expectancy | 73
6) Population distribution and density | 75
b) Population map in Syria | 76
1) Population inside Syria | 78
2) Population outside Syria | 87
V. Toward Participatory Population Policies | 94
Results and Conclusions | 103
References | 107
Appendices | 114
Appendix 1: The Population Status Survey 2014 | 114
Appendix 2: Comparison between Previous and Adjusted Demographic
Indicators | 126
Appendix 3: Life Table 2010 | 128
Appendix 4: Population by Governorates and Residency Status (Mid 2014) | 130
Appendix 5: IDPs Matrix by Governorates | 132
Appendix 6: Population and IDPs Characteristics by Governorates | 133
About the Author
The Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) is an independent, non-governmental, and non-profit research center; which undertakes public policy-oriented research to bridge the gap between research and policy-making process. SCPR aims to develop a participatory evidence-based policy dialogue to achieve policy alternatives that promote sustainable, inclusive, and human-centered development.
To find out more, visit SCPR’s website: http://scpr-syria.org/
info@spcr-syria.org
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Excerpt:
As SCPR attempts to understand the development paradigm in Syria, it recognizes the importance of the demographic transition as a key pillar of this paradigm. Furthermore, the mainstream analysis has been trapped in the family planning programs; therefore, SCPR chose to build a research project that reassess the demographic transition in Syria before and during the conflict. The results clarified many important aspects that helped in assessing the developmental performance in Syria, like the failure in decreasing the fertility and morality rates during the intensive implementation of neoliberal policies. Moreover, it gives the team a comprehensive understanding of the conflict consequences on the population characteristics in terms of forced dispersion, gender and age distortion, conflict related mortality and morbidity, and human development. This work creates many questions that need to be addressed, like the role of different policies—conducted by different actors—on the demographic transitions. Many questions about the role of brutal military attacks, killing, kidnapping, looting, rape, and besieging on the population status in Syria need to be addressed in the future research agendas. Finally, this work will be part of the background work that will help in designing the alternatives policies for Syria in the future.