Syrian Arab Republic
Syrian Arab Republic in numbers — 17 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Syrian Arab Republic recorded GDP per capita: 1,057 (2022), ranking 196 of 212 worldwide; Population: 25.62 million (2025), ranking 57 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 72.6 (2024), ranking 130 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 13.42% (2019), ranking 16 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+2668%) and GDP growth the largest decrease (-102%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 7 of 17 comparable series are higher and 10 are lower.
Its population of 25.62 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.
11 of 17 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 6 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 25,620,427 | 2025 | +448.2% |
| Population growth | 3.77% | 2025 | +26.0% |
| Urban population | 72.08% | 2025 | +80.2% |
| Life expectancy | 72.56 | 2024 | +37.6% |
| Infant mortality | 17.7 | 2024 | -83.5% |
| CO2 per capita | 1.27 | 2024 | +28.3% |
| Labor participation | 36.9% | 2025 | -27.7% |
| Unemployment | 13.57% | 2025 | +101.0% |
| Electricity access | 89.3% | 2024 | -4.4% |
| GDP | 23,737,634,644.4 | 2022 | +2667.6% |
| GDP per capita | 1,056.78 | 2022 | +475.8% |
| GDP growth | -0.2% | 2022 | -101.9% |
| Forest area | 2.84% | 2023 | +40.4% |
| Inflation | 13.42% | 2019 | +162.1% |
| Health spending | 2.71% | 2023 | -40.7% |
| Internet users | 33.77% | 2018 | — |
| Education spending | 5.13% | 2009 | +43.2% |