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Syrian Arab Republic

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Syrian Arab Republic is a country. The capital city is Damascus, located in the Western Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 185,179 km², a population of 23,594,623 people and uses the currency Syrian pound. The President is Bashar al-Assad.

Key facts

currency: Syrian pound
capital city: Damascus
region: Western Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 185,179 km²
population: 23,594,623 people
political leader: Bashar al-Assad (President)

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GDP: 23,622,827,079.50 current US$
inflation: 13.42 annual %
self-employed workers: 34.48 % of total employment
unemployment: 13.19 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 33.27 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 269,000 people
democracy score: 1.43
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 7,248,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 34.70 % of population
military expenditure: 4.06 % of GDP
net migration: 757,309 people
press freedom: 1.09
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 10.80 %
birth rate: 20.53 per 1,000 people
death rate: 5.05 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 63.14 current US$
health expenditure: 3.05 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.01 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.43 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 72
suicide mortality rate: 2.00 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 139,133.76 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 1.35 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 25.59 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 89.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 68.63 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 2.31 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 29.06 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.00 % of total
net energy imports: 47.83 % of energy use
fertility rate: 2.70 births per woman
forest area: 5,220 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 97.79 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 41.21 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 18.30
methane emissions: 6.95 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 3.69 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 11,799,042 people
male population: 11,795,581 people
renewable energy consumption: 1.10 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 180,422.92 km²
rural population: 10,049,186 people
urban land area: 5,092.25 km²
urban population: 13,545,437 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.31 % of total population

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Syrian Arab Republic is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Western Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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