Syrian Refugee Statistics: Pulling Together the Economic Indicators

The stakeholders in this issue are the major nations of the EU: Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Belgium, Hungary and the Netherlands. Turkey is also a country that has received a large amount of immigrants and has used this to leverage negotiations with the other countries, threatening in fact to unleash a wave of immigrants on Europe if their demands are not met (Karadeniz & Tattersall, 2016). England has received many immigrants as well, but the UK has also voted to leave the EU, and thus the EU is mainly affected by this problem now. In fact, Turkey has some 2.7 million Syrian immigrants within its borders and half a million Iraqi refugees as well (Karadeniz & Tattersall, 2016). The following chart represents Turkey’s share of immigrants:

Source: IMF (2016)

Germany and Hungary have received the most migrants in the EU:

Source: IMF (2016)

The 10, 20 and 30-year trend lines for the EU look like this with regard to accepting immigrants:

Source: IMF (2016)

By country, the breakdown looks like this:

Source: IMF (2016)

Compared to the rest of the world, this is a small number:

Source: IMF (2016)

The cost per GDP of the individual nations to house these immigrants is depicted in this chart:

Source: IMF (2016)

References

IMF. (2016). The refugee surge in Europe. Retrieved from https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2016/sdn1602.pdf

Karadeniz, T. & Tattersall, N. (2016). Erdogan warns Europe that Turkey could open migrant gates. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-europe-erdogan/erdogan-warns-europe-that-turkey-could-open-migrant-gates-idUSKBN13K0R6