2013:
2012:
2013:
2012:
Lebanon
662,456 new refugees
317,849
new refugees
new refugees
new refugees
new refugees
new refugees
new refugees
new refugees
new refugees
new refugees
156,612
210,059
137,756
328,590
144,997
81,937
56,753
10,169
2013:
2012:
2013:
2012:
2013:
2012:
Turkey
484,693 new refugees
Jordan
139,150 new refugees
Iraq
66,333 new refugees
Egypt
72,168 new refugees
Three million Syrian refugees have sought shelter from civil war – most of them in five nearby countries.

Below, see how the rate of refugees has increased.
See how Syria’s neighbours and other countries have handled the influx of refugees:
Lebanon hosts about 39 percent of Syrian refugees. Today, Lebanon has more refugees per capita than any other country in the world, with Syrians making up about one-quarter of its total population.

Some 67 percent of refugees in Lebanon rent basic apartments or homes, half of which areovercrowded with several families. Over 30 percent live in substandard conditions in makeshift shelters, tents, unfurnished buildings, garages, warehouses and worksites. 
Lebanon
1,140,410 refugees
Jordan
612,737 refugees
Pulses per minute = new refugees per hour
2014: 115
Refugees per hour
2014: 84
Refugees per hour
2014: 24
Refugees per hour
2014: 12
Refugees per hour
2014: 13
Refugees per hour
Jordan hosts about 20 percent of Syria’s refugees. About one in five live in camps, with the largest being the sprawling Zaatari camp in Jordan’s north. Zaatari has become the country’s fifth-largest city because of the influx.
 
But the vast majority of Syrian refugees live outside of camps, mostly in northern and central Jordan.
Turkey
832,508 refugees
Turkey is the second-biggest destination country for Syrian refugees, hosting about 28 percent of them. The influx into Turkey far surpassed initial projections, and refugees in the country are expected to number one million by the end of 2014. 

About one-third of Syrian refugees in Turkey live in camps along the country’s southern border with Syria.
Iraq
213,797 refugees
Iraq hosts about eight percent of Syria’s refugees. Nearly 40 percent of Syrian refugees in Iraq are hosted in camps, mostly in the northern Kurdish region of Dohuk, while 60 percent live in local communities. 

Most are highly vulnerable and live in substandard accommodations. Iraq's own security challenges and the recent rise of the Islamic State group have made the journey across the Syrian-Iraqi border more difficult and dangerous.
AP photo / Iraq 
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Egypt
The vast majority of Syrian refugees in Egypt live in rented accommodations in Cairo, Alexandria and Damietta. Syrians were initially welcomed to Egypt without visa restrictions, but that changed following the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi and the military’s takeover in 2013.
 
Now, Syrians face visa restrictions and stringent security clearance measures, as well as tensions with host communities. An assessment conducted earlier this year found that 49 percent of Syrian refugees in Egypt were considering leaving the country.
139,090 refugees
65,527
new refugees
Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
Source: UNHCR
Other countries
About 123,000 Syrians have applied for asylum in Europe since the war began in 2011, with Germany and Sweden receiving more than half of all new asylum applications. About 10,000 refugees – mostly Syrians – entered Bulgaria last year across the Turkish border. Much smaller numbers of Syrian refugees have been resettled in countries such as Argentina and the US.
 
The number of people making the dangerous sea journey from the African coast to Europe has skyrocketed this year, and one factor is the rising number of refugees from Syria.