Multi-billion-dollar Syria aid appeals routinely underfunded

A look at growing gaps in aid for Syria, with needs rising faster than contributions by donors. U.N. figures show that the five-year-old war has so far displaced more than 11 million Syrians and that multi-billion-dollar aid appeals have routinely been underfunded.
FUNDING GAPS
2013 – total appeal $4.391 billion, 70 percent funded
2014 – total appeal $5.996 billion, 56 percent funded
2015 – total appeal $7.213 billion, 52 percent funded
2016 – total appeal $8.96 billion
DISPLACEMENT
– About 6.5 million Syrians are internally displaced inside their homeland
– Close to 4.6 million Syrians have been registered as refugees in regional host countries, mainly Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt.
– Since 2011, 50 Syrian families have been displaced every hour of every day.
– More than 440,000 Syrians arrived in Europe by sea in 2015
NEEDS INSIDE SYRIA
– about 13.5 million Syrians, including 6 million children, require humanitarian aid
– 70 percent of the population is without regular access to safe drinking water
– more than 2 million children are out of school