With one month of 2016 to go, the Obama administration has admitted a total of 14,172 Syrian refugees into the United States so far this calendar year, an increase of 625 percent over the same 11-month period in 2015.
Of the 14,172, 14,042 (98.9 percent) are Muslims – 13,872 Sunnis, 25 Shi’a, and 127 other Muslims – and 101 (0.71 percent) are Christians. Another 38 (0.26 percent) are Yazidis, eight refugees with religion given as “other,” and one with “no religion.”
The Christians comprised 25 Catholics, 21 Orthodox, five Protestant, four Jehovah’s Witnesses and 46 refugees self-described simply as “Christian” in State Department Refugee Processing Center data.
Of the 14,172 Syrian refugee arrivals this year, 3,547 (25 percent) are males between the ages of 14 and 50, and 3,216 (22.6 percent) are females aged 14-50. Another 6,849 (48.3 percent) are children under 14 – 3,525 boys and 3,324 girls.
Between January and November last year, 1,955 Syrian refugees were resettled in the U.S., of whom 1,913 (97.8 percent) were Muslims and 30 (1.53 percent) were Christians.
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