1. Diverging pathsTunisia and Syria

   Tunisia and Syria: similar GDP per person in 1990, 2.8 times apart in 2022

   TunisiaSyria

   Output per person a year, in 2021 dollars adjusted for price differences: $6,700 in Tunisia and $6,000 in Syria in 1990; $12,700 and $4,600 in 2022. Tunisia grew 1.9-fold; Syria fell 23%.

   Source: World Bank (WDI, ITU and UNESCO data); UN WPP 2024Open on the chart →

More findings

• 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
• Tunisia: births are already as low as the UN expected only only after 2050
• Syria: older UN projections expected too much, the 2022 one too little
• Most refugees abroad per 1,000 residents at home

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