Jordan's Zaatari Camp is currently home to more than 80,000 refugees and it just welcomed the birth of its 5,000th baby.
Rima Mahmoud Salameh is the second child of her parents who fled the ongoing war in Syria. She is also the 5,000th baby to be born in the maternity clinic run by the United Nations in Zaatari Camp.
The camp is one of the largest in the area, and the United Nations Population Fund estimated that almost 10 babies are born everyday in the refugee population. Out of the 637,000 registered refugees in Jordan, 16,000 are pregnant at any one time.
According to Gulf News, the camp's birth-rate is now even higher than that of Jordan as a whole.
The baby's 20-year-old mother, Khuloud Ahmad Sulaiman, told Gulf News, “We thought we would be here for just a short while, then go back.” She also said that she most regrets the absence of her parents who returned to Syria, meaning her mother missed the births of both of Sulaiman's children.