A total of 2,957,454 Syrians are currently registered in Turkey, daily Hurriyet reported Thursday, citing a tweet from the interior ministry’s directorate general of migration management.
The official figures included protection applications, irregular migrants and foreigners given residence permits, the directorate stated in the Tweet.
There were more Syrian men (1,580,866) than women (1,367,588) registered. The majority of males was aged 19 and 24 and the biggest group of females was aged between five and nine, the directorate said.
Around 10 percent of Syrian refugees were in refugee camps, according to official data cited last month by state news agency Anadolu. Most are living in urban areas and have the right to work.
Turkey was spending 25 billion dollars on aid for Syrian refugees, Anadolu quoted interior minister Suleyman Soylu as saying on 15 February.
After Lebanon, Turkey is the country hosting the most Syrian refugees.
Lebanon is sheltering over a million Syrians, Jordan 657,000, Iraq more than 230,000 and Egypt over 117,000 according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).
