{"id":205188,"date":"2012-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=205188"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:55:26","slug":"auto-insert-205188","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205188\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Facts &#038; Figures &#8211; UNICEF fact sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27664%27%20height%3D%2781%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20664%2081%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27664%27%20height%3D%2781%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/f70ddb2fe767659b85257b170056bc7a_image0.GIF\" border=\"0\" height=\"81px\" width=\"664px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>Population<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong><sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#2f2f2f;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">1,644,293 <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">people with 839,000 children below the age of 18 (51 % of the population).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">There are 251,829 children under the age of five, including 54,923 under 12 months.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Total area is 365 km<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">. It is one of the most densely populated areas around the world, with of over 4,505 people persquare kilometre<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">1.2 million of the total population (two-thirds) are registered refugees, living in eight refugee camps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>,<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">460,784 children attend 689 schools (basic and secondary) &#8211; 396 government schools, 245 UNRWA schools and 48 private institutions.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Net enrolment for basic education is 92 % with more girls enrolled (95 %) than boys (90%).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The enrolment rate declines to 67 % in secondary schools (75% for girls, 59% for boys who appear to be more likely to leave school for work)<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Despite high rates of attendance, maintaining the quality of education remains a major challenge, partly due to a shortage of schools 85 % of schools (governmental + UNRWA) teach on a double-shift system<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>6<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">, forcing children to study in overcrowded classrooms. School hours are often shorter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">An estimated 250 new schools are needed now and an additional 275 schools by 2020, to accommodate the increase in tudent population<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>7<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Double shift system and crowded classrooms make learning difficult.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>Protection<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>8<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">In the first ten months of 2012, before hostilities started in November, eight children were reported killed in Gaza and 87 injured. 18 children were reported killed in Gaza and 141 injured in 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>Health and Nutrition<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong><sup>9<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#00a1e0;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Under five mortality rate is 29.2 per 100,000 live births and infant mortality rate is 23 per 100,000 live births.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">One quarter of children under five are anaemic, and 10 per cent of children stunted (short\/age).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Secondary care is limited to 25 hospitals across the Gaza Strip, providing 2,047 beds, or 1.3 beds per 1,000 people, with 3,520 physicians and 5,910 nurses. Most health facilities are unable to provide safe and adequate services and need rehabilitation or upgrading.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>10<\/sup><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#00a1e0;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Water, sanitation and hygiene:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The coastal aquifer is the only source of freshwater. 95% of its water is unfit for human consumption.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>11<\/sup><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The aquifer could become unusable as early as 2016<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>12<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">, with the damage irreversible by 2020<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>13<\/sup><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">90 million litres of untreated and partially treated wastewater are dumped into the Mediterranean each day.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">The average water consumption for personal and domestic use in Gaza is about 80-90 litres, below the 100 litres per capita per day recommended by WHO.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>14<\/sup><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#00a1e0;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Poverty:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Unemployment stood at 29 % in 2011<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>15<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">, out of a labour force that represents only 38 per cent of Gaza&#8217;s population of working age.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Women labour force participation stood at 12 %<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>16<\/sup><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Women unemployment rate was 44 % and 57 % for people aged 20-24 in the fourth quarter of 2011<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>17<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">More than half of the households in Gaza are either food insecure (44%) or vulnerable to food insecurity (16%) even when taking into account UN food distributions to almost 1.1 million people.<\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>18<\/sup><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Endnotes<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#808080;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">2Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 18 April 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Ministry of Education Annual Report 2011.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Ministry of Education Database. 2012<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Ministry of Education Database. 2012<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>6<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">OCHA. 2012<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>7<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">United Nations Country Team. Gaza in 2020 &#8211; Liveable place? 2012.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>8<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">UNICEF MRM database 2012<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>9<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, UNFPA and UNICEF. Household Survey 2012<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>10<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process 2012a: 19.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>11<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Al-Yaqubi, 2006: 2.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>12<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Palestinian Water Authority, 2011.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>13<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Oxfam<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>14<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">UNICEF, 2011: 31.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>15<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 22 February 2012.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>16<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 22 February 2012.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\"><sup>17<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color:#808080;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcbs.gov.ps\" style=\"color:#808080;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">www.pcbs.gov.ps<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population1: 1,644,293 people with 839,000 children below the age of 18 (51 % of the population). There are 251,829 children under the age of five, including 54,923 under 12 months. Total area is 365 km2. 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