Syria
Syrian Arab Republic
- Capital
- Damascus
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 26 million
- Currency
- SYP
- Area
- 185,180 kmΒ²
Across Syria's 15 priced cities, one person needs about $544 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $63.00.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
40out of 100
- Purchasing power25%11
- Safety20%32
- Health care15%36
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%83
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%95
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the countryβs cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
30.2
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
2.4
New York = 100
Purchasing power
13.3
New York = 100
One person
$544
A month, rent included
Net salary
$63.00
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$90.00
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$1,057
2022
Growth
β0.2%
2022
Unemployment
13.6%
2025
Inflation
13.4%
2019
Life expectancy
72.6 years
2024
Internet users
34%
2018
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 22%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 5%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 28%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeoβs crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 31.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 68.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2010
- 2.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- β
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- β
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- β
Cities in Syria
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Hama | 65 | 30.7 | β | β | β | 460.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Duma | 63 | 37.7 | β | β | β | 111.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Ar Raqqah | 61 | β | β | β | β | 532K | Low confidence |
| 4Al BΔb | 60 | β | β | β | β | 130.7K | Low confidence |
| 5Idlib | 60 | β | β | β | β | 128.8K | Low confidence |
| 6Al αΈ¨asakah | 60 | β | β | β | β | 422.4K | Low confidence |
| 7Deir ez-Zor | 60 | β | β | β | β | 271.8K | Low confidence |
| 8Al Qamishli | 59 | β | β | β | β | 184.2K | Low confidence |
| 9Homs | 50 | 26.6 | $50.00 | $73.07 | 18.6 | 775.4K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 10Latakia | 50 | 27.9 | $89.74 | $58.33 | 13.1 | 709K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 11Baniyas | 50 | 28.9 | β | β | β | 39.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 12Aleppo | 50 | 30.2 | $89.80 | $63.27 | 13.3 | 2.1M | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 13Jaramana | 49 | 37.7 | β | β | β | 100K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Al-Rastan | 49 | 37.7 | β | β | β | 53.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Al-Qusayr | 49 | 37.7 | β | β | β | 41.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Suran | 49 | 37.7 | β | β | β | 30.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 17Az-zabadani | 49 | 37.7 | β | β | β | 29.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 18Muhradah | 49 | 37.7 | β | β | β | 17.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Al-qardahah | 49 | 37.7 | β | β | β | β | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 20Tartus | 48 | 34.3 | $115 | $49.99 | 9.1 | 458.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 21Damascus | 42 | 38.9 | $523 | $71.83 | 7.4 | 1.6M | High confidence, 28 contributors |
| 22Dar'a | 41 | β | β | $75.00 | β | 98K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 23'ayn-al-'arab | 41 | β | β | β | β | 50K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 24'afrin | 41 | β | $50.00 | β | β | 48.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 25Al-Qutayfah | 41 | β | β | β | β | 16.1K | Low confidence |