• The Axis of Generosity

    About the graphic:

    Much has been made about which countries are or aren’t doing enough for Syrian refugees. Governments across the Western world claim to be doing their bit, Gulf countries have reacted angrily to accusations they have done too little.

    Leaving aside political or military influence, countries can help alleviate the situation in two major ways: by taking in refugees or funding the humanitarian response. Both deserve credit. Some do both.

    The donors tend to keep their borders closed but give money to the humanitarian response. By providing funding to humanitarian operations, they may also hope to keep refugees in these countries or Syrians at home. Typically the biggest donors to the Syrian humanitarian crisis have taken only small numbers of refugees.

    On the other hand, neighbouring countries have hosted the majority of refugees, and in the case of Turkey, spent billions of their own income on them. Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq are not international donors and have needed, and received, more international aid to cope with the influx.

    Our graphic show the 28 countries that have made the biggest effort in terms of cash or taking in refugees. The numbers of Syrians who are resident abroad on work visas or other immigration arrangements are not sufficiently clear to be factored in. Refugee data is the latest available and emergency funding figures are from mid-September.

    The graph does not compare absolute volumes. Instead, giving credit where (some) credit is due, we included the twenty countries hosting the most Syrian refugees, and the twenty countries providing the most aid this year and combined them.

    We found 28 countries that are doing something significant for Syrian refugees. We ranked them and then plotted their rankings on cash giving and refugee hosting to make this: “The Axis of Generosity”.

    http://newirin.irinnews.org/dataviz/2015/9/21/the-axis-of-generosity-28-countries-doing-something-about-the-syri
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