The number of unemployed in both Tartous and Lattakia is five times higher than in 2010, with productive sectors such as agriculture and tourism destroyed.
Now around 85 per cent live below the upper poverty line, while almost 40 per cent of households suffer from food insecurity.
Conflict-related activities provide employment for around half the households with one or more members working, and the conflict has created a six-fold increase in dependency on remittances, as well as a high dependence on loans.
It has also left the population with poor access to services such as electricity, transportation, and drinking water, and without basics such as fuel and cooking gas.