Employment

Every month across the year, our What Worries the World survey series has asked an online sample of over 18,000 citizens in 26 core countries about the biggest worries for their nation, presenting them with a list of 17 concerns ranging from crime and violence to childhood obesity.

March 2016 marks the end of the 5th year since the start of the Syrian conflict. Influenced by the Arab Spring sweeping across a number of countries in the region, protestors in many parts of Syria took to the streets demanding political reform.With the Syrian conflict now entering its sixth year, the United Nations have declared that over 4.6 million Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries, with two-thirds of those settling in Lebanon and Jordan.