- ISO 3166
SY- Main language + region
apc-SY- Currency
- SYP · Syrian Pound
- Region
- EMEA · MENA · MENAP
Syria
Syria has 23.9M people, and 8.1M of them are online. Levantine Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 85%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Arabic is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to apc-SY.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
8.1M
0%world median 81%100%
34% of 23.9M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2018 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$1,057
Higher than 8% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
23%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2011. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Levantine Arabic 85% · Arabic 80% · Kurdish 8%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
456
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
84%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Syria
share of 23.9M people
- Levantine Arabic85%20.3M
- Arabicofficial80%19.1M
- Kurdish8%1.9M
- French5.9%1.4M
- Armenian1.8%429.6K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Levantine Arabic in 6 territories and 43.7M speakers in total; Syria holds 46% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Levantine Arabic profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (apc-SY).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Sat
Currency
SYP 1,235
1,234.56 in SYP · Syrian Pound