A general census of Syria in 1943 gave details of religious groups of the population and the rate of growth of each and estimates of the population in 1953 from an unnamed source were as follows: == Economic class - Literacy == Education is free and compulsory from ages 6 to 11.
A general census of Syria in 1943 gave details of religious groups of the population and the rate of growth of each and estimates of the population in 1953 from an unnamed source were as follows: == Economic class - Literacy == Education is free and compulsory from ages 6 to 11.
None of these languages have official status. Many educated Syrians also speak English and French. ==References== ==External links== Syrian Arab Republic: 2004 Census Data, Humanitarian Response, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Síria#Demografia
Syria's estimated pre–Syrian Civil War 2011 population was 22 ±.5 million permanent inhabitants, which included 21,124,000 Syrians, as well as 1.3 million Iraqi refugees and over 500,000 stateless Palestinians.
Pierre Beckouche, before 2011, Sunni Muslims accounted for 78% of Syria's population, which included 500,000 Palestinian refugees and the non-Arab Sunni Muslims, namely the Kurds 9-10% and the Turkmen/Turkoman 4%.
At its peak in 2015, ISIL ruled over ten million people across Syria and Iraq.
A further 70,000 people were trapped on the border with Jordan at Rukban in 2016-18, with up to 40,000 still there in 2019. A significant part of the population lives in territory outside government sovereignty.
NGOs and the opposition have also accused the government of using the conflict to affect demographic restructuring. === Birth-Death Rate === In April 2016, the UN estimated that 400,000 people had died in the war, and casualties have continued since, with estimates for the total dead by mid-2019 of up to 220,000 civilians, 175,000 government combatants, and 174,000 anti-government combatants (see Casualties of the Syrian Civil War). The war also affected the birth rate.
Since 2017, around 49 percent of the Population lives in poverty. The war resulted in large-scale displacement in the country.
In mid-2017, UN OCHA estimated that around 540,000 persons were trapped in besieged areas as of June 2017, the majority besieged by government forces in Eastern Ghouta.
The CIA World Factbook showed an estimated 19,454,263 people as of July 2018.
By the time the government retook Ghouta in April 2018, some 140,000 individuals had fled their homes and up to 50,000 were evacuated to Idlib and Aleppo governorates.
Arabs represent 80-85% of the population, with the rest being a mixture of many ethnic and religious sects, as shown in the table below: The CIA World Factbook cites the following figures for ethnic groups as at July 2018: approximately Arab 50%, Alawite 15%, Kurd 10%, Levantine 10%, other 15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkmen, Armenian and Chechens).
A further 70,000 people were trapped on the border with Jordan at Rukban in 2016-18, with up to 40,000 still there in 2019. A significant part of the population lives in territory outside government sovereignty.
The accusation was repeated on 8 May 2019 by Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.
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