Digital 2021: Syria

You’ll find our complete #Digital2021 report for Syria in the SlideShare embed above (click here if that’s not working for you).

This report contains all the latest internet stats, mobile stats, and social media stats for Syria, but read on below for essential insights into digital use in Syria in 2021.

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Syria’s population

  • Syria had a population of 17.88 million in January 2021.

  • Syria’s population increased by 599 thousand (+3.5%) between January 2020 and January 2021.

  • 50.0% of Syria’s population is female, while 50.0% of its population is male [note: the United Nations does not publish data for genders other than ‘female’ and ‘male’].

  • 55.8% of Syria’s population lives in urban centres, while 44.2% lives in rural areas.

Internet users in Syria

  • There were 8.41 million internet users in Syria in January 2021.

  • The number of internet users in Syria increased by 303 thousand (+3.7%) between 2020 and 2021.

  • Internet penetration in Syria stood at 47.0% in January 2021.

Note: we no longer include data sourced from social media platforms in our internet user numbers, so the numbers shown above and in our complete Digital 2021 reports are not comparable with numbers published in our reports from previous years.

Mobile connections in Syria

  • There were 14.24 million mobile connections in Syria in January 2021.

  • The number of mobile connections in Syria increased by 44 thousand (+0.3%) between January 2020 and January 2021.

  • The number of mobile connections in Syria in January 2021 was equivalent to 79.6% of the total population.

Note: many people have more than one mobile connection, so figures for mobile connections may exceed 100% of the total population.

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Additional resources

Still need more data? Here are a few suggestions:

  • Click here to see all of our published reports for Syria.

  • Explore all of our reports for countries across Western Asia.

  • Click here to browse our complete library of published reports.

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DigitalSimon KempDigital, Digital 2021, Syria, Western Asia, Middle East, LocalComment