- ISO 3166
SY- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
8.1M
0%world median 81%100%
34% of 23.9M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2018 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
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, so treat it as colour for a discussion. 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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Syria
share of 23.9M people
- Levantine Arabic85%20.3M
- Arabicofficial80%19.1M
- Kurdish8%1.9M
- French6%1.4M
- Armenian2%429.6K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against apc-SY, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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