12-22-2015, 09:32 AM
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The future is unwritten
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United Nations data
Previously, PolitiFact has examined claims about Syrian refugees. In October, Donald Trump said "there aren't that many women; there aren't that many children" among Syrian refugees. We ranked that statement False.
The United Nations keeps track of more than 4 million registered Syrian refugees, with an online database that includes specific demographic data.
Let’s start by leaving out the other qualifiers — young and able-bodied — and look at whether the "vast majority" of refugees are men. We need not split hairs on what constitutes a "vast majority" here, since the gender breakdown is pretty evenly split; in hard numbers, the majority of refugees is actually female.
Further, to look at only the male refugees – which amount to 49.7 percent of the total – less than half of that population is age 18 or older. Men ages 18 to 59 comprise about 22 percent of all Syrian refugees.
Contrary to Fiorina’s statement, most refugees overall are children age 17 or younger.
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