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Population history of Syria. In 1200, the territories of modern-day Syria had an estimated population of 2.7 million. [12] This number sharply decreased due to the Plague epidemic in 1348–1353, which killed off an estimated third of the Levant's population. By 1937, the population reached an estimated 2,368,000, still considerably lower than ...
Centres of Assyrian population Official data Estimation(s) Article ... Syria: 200,000 [13] –400,000 [14] –877,000 [15] (pre-Syrian civil war) Assyrians in Syria
Population of the present-day top seven most-populous countries, 1800 to 2100. Future projections are based on the 2024 UN's medium-fertility scenario. Chart created by Our World In Data in 2024. The following is a list of countries by past and projected future population. This assumes that countries stay constant in the unforeseeable future ...
Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that the latest developments in Syria increased the threat to Israel, "despite the moderate image that the rebel leaders claim to present".
Israel occupied the Golan Heights during the 1967 Mideast War and later annexed the roughly 460-square-mile area in 1981 in a unilateral decision that was not recognized by the international ...
Syria's brutal civil war rekindled suddenly after 13 years, with rebels staging a shock offensive that forced long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad to flee to Russia.
According to the Syrian opposition website Syrian Martyrs, the conflict's documented death toll was 151,888 up to 30 April 2016, which was the time of its last update. [27] The number includes 35,859 rebel combatants but does not include members of the government security forces or pro-government foreign combatants who have died. [ 28 ]
Syria has a population of approximately 21 million people, and Syrian government figures place the population growth rate at 2.37%, with 65% of the population under the age of 35 and more than 40% under the age of 15. [24] Each year more than 200,000 new job seekers enter the Syrian job market, but the economy has not been able to absorb them. [85]