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Life of Young Syrians Post-Conflict

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Educational status Most young Syrians in Syria have been educated to secondary (56%) or university level (20%), however, more than one in three within this country have missed at least one year of education because of the Syrian conflict. • Even in Germany, where 70% young Syrians has completed secondary education and 20% university level, more than half (52%) lost at least one year of schooling due to the conflict. However, the situation is most striking in Lebanon where four in five young Syrians have missed at least one year of schooling and where, currently, more then eight in ten (84%) has not finished secondary school. Of this, one in twenty (5%) are illiterate. The primary reason for missing some years of schooling was because the individual needed to flee their home. This is followed by school closure, or schools being damaged due to the conflict. Employment status Two in five young Syrians residing in Syria (40%) are currently full-time students and therefore not working for wages. More than one in four (28%) are working full or part time or in temporarily jobs. However, the same number is currently not working or is looking for a job (28%). On the other hand, in Lebanon, young Syrians are not studying. Almost half of them are working (47%) with another half being unemployed or inactive (50%). • The situation looks better among young Syrians in Germany where most of them are full time students (45%) or are part of the working population (46%) with only a few being unemployed (7%). Gender differences by employment status can be seen in all three country settings. However, the patterns are different: In Syria, there are more women than men who are unemployed or not working (53% women compared to 13% men). Similarly, in Lebanon, a large majority of young women are working at home as housewives/househusbands (59% women compared to 2% men). Conversely, young Syrian women living in Germany are primarily students (60% women compared to 29% men) whereas young Syrian men in Germany are predominantly working, either part time or full time (25% women compared to 64% men). Ipsos
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