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IndicatorSYRSyrian Arab RepublicMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.32rank #123
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile13.4rank #200
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.17rank #119
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.13rank #132
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.36rank #117
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile18.8rank #196
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.32rank #123
Military spending% GDP4.1%rank #13
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.06rank #139
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile25.4rank #202
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile23.4rank #201
Rule of Law0-100 percentile25.8rank #202
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.28rank #115
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.13rank #144
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.05rank #142
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile24.5rank #197
Women in parliament% seats4.9%rank #162
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.29rank #143
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment16.3%rank #85
Agriculture value added% GDP42.9%rank #1
Annual working hours per workerhours1,620.5rank #102
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker84,276.1rank #115
Current account balance% GDP-0.6%rank #63
Employment-to-population ratio%31.6%rank #178
External debt stocks% GNI25.3%rank #20
FDI net inflows% GDP1.2%rank #161
GDPcurrent US$23.74Brank #114
GDP growth%-0.2%rank #185
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$1,056.8rank #187
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $4,579.4rank #164
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $3,917.7rank #159
Gross capital formation% GDP16%rank #46
Gross savings% GDP15.8%rank #115
High-technology exports% manuf. exports1.4%rank #108
Human capital indexindex2.6rank #89
Industry value added% GDP11.9%rank #173
Inflation%13.4%rank #171
Labour force participation rate%36.7%rank #177
Personal remittances received% GDP2.6%rank #76
R&D expenditure% GDP0.04%rank #82
Researchers in R&Dper million139.9rank #74
Trade openness% GDP35.4%rank #173
Unemployment% labor force13.6%rank #163
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%13.9%rank #163
Vulnerable employment% employment38.9%rank #116
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2433.1%rank #166
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2434.3%rank #167
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop94.1%rank #98
Basic sanitation access% pop95.6%rank #76
Child mortalityper 1001.8rank #84
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,259.4rank #164
DTP3 immunization coverage%73%rank #27
Health spending% GDP2.7%rank #183
Infant mortalityper 1k births17.7rank #83
Life expectancyyears72.6rank #130
Maternal mortalityper 100k20rank #20
Measles immunization% children81%rank #19
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%81%rank #19
Physiciansper 1k1.5rank #76
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m332.1rank #159
Road traffic deathsper 100k14.9rank #60
Suicide mortality rateper 100k0.59rank #2
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k23rank #56
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births18.4rank #120
Undernourishment% pop39%rank #80
Education
Adult literacy%94.4%rank #18
Education spending% GDP5.1%rank #40
Expected years of schoolingyears7.4rank #191
Mean years of schoolingyears5.9rank #156
Primary completion rate% relevant age60.1%rank #107
Primary enrollment% gross81.4%rank #128
Secondary enrollment% gross38.7%rank #106
Tertiary enrollment% gross43.8%rank #79
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00023.2rank #58
Fertility ratebirths/woman2.7rank #66
Median age of populationyears22.2rank #161
Net migration rateper 1,00032.1rank #2
Populationpeople25.62Mrank #57
Population growth%3.8%rank #5
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years77rank #130
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands37,793.4rank #54
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age53.9rank #119
Urban population%72.1%rank #70
Climate
CO₂ emissionst31.78Mrank #74
CO₂ per capitat1.3rank #141
Electricity access% pop89.3%rank #31
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation3%rank #120
Electricity from solar% generation0.4%rank #141
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita854rank #112
Forest area% land2.8%rank #184
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita3.3rank #67
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh706.2rank #177
Renewable electricity%3.5%rank #161
Renewable energy share%1.1%rank #164
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e77rank #123
Society
Asylum seekerspeople154,355rank #169
Extreme poverty% pop18%rank #39
Female labor participation%12.7%rank #179
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1006.9rank #111
Gender Development Indexratio0.79rank #109
Gender Inequality Index0-10.49rank #114
Gini indexindex26.4rank #5
Homicide rateper 100k2.1rank #60
Human Development Index0-10.56rank #129
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.42rank #95
Internally displaced personspeople5.54Mrank #35
Internet users% pop33.8%rank #137
Life satisfaction0-103.5rank #146
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.55rank #98
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #140
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.09rank #111
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.4rank #149
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.86rank #187
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people9,885rank #92
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people4.87Mrank #175
Youth NEET rate%33.8%rank #163
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year735rank #26
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths3,748rank #43
Hazard & exposure0-108.6rank #73
Human hazard & exposure0-1010rank #74
INFORM risk score0-107.8rank #61
Lack of coping capacity0-107rank #60
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-104rank #36
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-108.7rank #65
Natural hazard & exposure0-105.3rank #40
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year3,449rank #44
Socio-economic vulnerability0-105.8rank #55
Vulnerability0-107.8rank #62
Vulnerable groups0-109rank #73
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