Syria

General information

Name	Syria
Long name	Syrian Arab Republic
Population (source)	census
Population (people)	17,064,854 (2014)
Constitutional form	Republic
Drives on	Right
Head of state authority	Executive
Main continent	Asia
Number of airports	99
Airports - with paved runways	29
Airports - with unpaved runways	70
Area (m²)	185,180
Birth rate (births/1,000 population)	24
Calling code
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%)	10
Current Account Balance (US$)	-7,150,000,128
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population)	4
Debt - external (Billion US$)	7
Economic aid donor (Billion $)
Electricity consumption (billion kWh)	29
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person)	1,287
Electricity exports (million kWh)	0
Electricity imports (million kWh)	0
Electricity production (billion kWh)	39
Exports (Billion $)	8
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$)	5,100
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $)	108
GDP real growth rate (%)	-2
Gross national income (US$)	36
Human Development Index	0
Health expenditures (% of GDP)	3
Heliports	6
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%)	0
HIV AIDS deaths	200
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS	0
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population)	2
Capital city	Damascus
Currency	Syrian pound
Imports (Billion $)	13
Industrial production growth rate (%)	6
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births)	15
Inflation rate consumer prices (%)	5
Internet hosts	420
Internet tld	.sy
Internet users	4,469,000
Investment (gross fixed) (%)	22
Iso 3166 code	SY
ISO CODE	SYR
Labor force	5,642,000
Life expectancy at birth (years)	75
Literacy (%)	80
Manpower available for military service	5,889,837
Manpower fit for military service	5,055,510
Manpower reaching militarily age annually	256,698
Is democracy	Yes
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$)
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births)	70
Merchant marine	96
Military expenditures percent of GDP	6
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters)	7,100,000,256
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person)	315
Natural gas exports (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas imports (cubic meters)	910,000,000
Natural gas production (cubic meters)	6,190,000,128
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters)	240,699,998,208
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population)	-28
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%)
Oil consumption (bbl/day)	292,000
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people)	13
Oil exports (bbl/day)	263,000
Oil imports (bbl/day)	55,280
Oil production (bbl/day)	401,000
Oil proved reserves (bbl)	2,500,000,000
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population)	2
Population below poverty line (%)	12
Population census (people)	17,064,854 (2014)
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer)	122
Population estimate (people)
Population growth rate (%)	-1
Public debt (% of GDP)	35
Railways (km)	2,052
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$)	14,830,000,128
Roadways (km)	68,157
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$)
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$)
Telephones main lines in use	4,069,000
Telephones main lines in use per capita	20
Telephones mobile cellular	11,696,000
Telephones mobile cellular per capita	58
Total fertility rate (children born/woman)	3
Unemployment rate (%)	12
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%)	19
Waterways (km)	900
Valley	Hula Valley
Helicopter
Canyon
Artillery
Crater
Religion
Continent	Asia
Border	Syria–Turkey border
Plateau	Armenian highlands
Marsh
Demonym	syrian

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