This Is How The UK’s Intake Of Syrian Refugees Compares To Other Countries

There are over 4 million Syrian refugees around the world. This is what that looks like.

Seven thousand and thirty Syrian asylum applicants arrived in the UK between April 2011 and July 2015, according to the UN's refugee agency. Each icon below represents 500 people.

Source: data.unhcr.org

This is the number of Syrian asylum applicants in Sweden over the same period – 64,685.

Source: data.unhcr.org

And the number of Syrian asylum applicants in Germany over the same time – 98,783.

Source: data.unhcr.org

In Jordan, there were 629,245 registered Syrian refugees as of 23 August 2015.

Source: data.unhcr.org

In Lebanon, there were 1,113,941 registered Syrian refugees as of 25 August 2015.

Source: data.unhcr.org

Turkey had 1,938,999 registered Syrian refugees as of 25 August 2015.

Source: data.unhcr.org

In total, there are 4,088,078 registered Syrian refugees across the Middle East and North Africa.

Source: data.unhcr.org

And this is the total number of refugees from all over the world at the end of 2014, according to UNHCR – 19.5 million. That's 2.9 million more than in 2013.

Source: unhcr.org.uk