Syria: from 6.20 to 4.37 children per woman in just 10 years
From 1987 to 1997 the number of children per woman fell faster than in any other decade since 1950.
Source: UN WPP 2024, World Bank, national statisticsOpen on the chart →
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- Syria: once more foreign-born lived here than natives abroad; now 8.93M natives live abroad
- Syria: 43% fewer babies in 2018 than before the war; 3% more in countries without war
- Syria: the UN's 2017 projection did not expect births this high even by 2100
- Syria: older UN projections expected too much, the 2022 one too little
- Most refugees abroad per 1,000 residents at home
- Syria: women live shorter lives than all 12 UN projections expected — by 4 years (median)