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Lebanon is a country of 4 Million People that has absorbed 1. 1 million. By now, probably 1. 2 5 million syrians. The equivalent in the United States would be over the course of nine years they absorbed 80 million refugees. Turkey is a country of about 75 million. They have absorbed the largest number of refugees. That represents a smaller proportion of turkeys large population. Small country like lebanon or jordan, and all of these are countries in the developing world. It bears mentioning that worldwide, refugees are housed 86 of all refugees are hosted by countries in the global south. Thatemographic meeting of is very different than it would be for the United States or for the European Union or for larger, wealthier countries to absorb similar numbers. I think that illustrate some of the things were been talking about. I just saw an article saying the United States is now up to Something Like 8000 syrian refugees. In 1975, the u. S. Took in 150,000 vietnamese refugees. The space to