Country Resource - Syria

- Population*..........................................................................................19,398,448 (July 2020 est.)
- Population growth rate......................................................................................4.25% (2020 est.)
- Birth rate........................................................................23.8 births/1,000 population (2020 est.)
- Death rate......................................................................4.5 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.)
- Net migration rate........................................ 27.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population NA (2020 est.)
- Ethnic groups......................................Arab ~50%, Alawite ~15%, Kurd ~10%, Levantine ~10%, other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian)
Note: approximately 22,000 Israeli settlers live in the Golan Heights (2016)