Syria
Syria in numbers
36 measures of Syria from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending4.06% of GDP in 2010
- Military spending per person$110 in 2011
- Military share of state spending13.6% of government spending in 2010
- Armed forces personnel269,000 people in 2020
- National power0.29% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers5.44% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports30 million TIV in 2010
Climate
Technology and environment
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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