World population/Syria
Asia
Population of Syria
26,472,496
Growing by 0.03 people every second
#57
world rank
0.32%
of world population
+2.98%
yearly change
+789,046
people this year
625,121
births a year
125,882
deaths a year
How the figure for Syria is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Syria at 26,472,496 on 1 July 2026, and projects 27,261,542 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.03 people added every second.
That places Syria at number 57 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.32 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 625,121 births and 125,882 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.