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Syria: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2030 · pop

2025
25.6 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+3.8%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.8%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
203029.4Forecast
202928.7Forecast
202828.0Forecast
202727.3Forecast
202626.5Forecast
202525.6
202424.7
202323.6
202222.5
202121.6
202021.0
201920.4
201819.6
201719.2
201619.2

Sources

  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1827–2014
  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • Penn World Table1960–2019
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2010
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2010
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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