Sanad’s public-data project
Real data about Syria, organized, sourced, and made easier to understand.
The Syria Data Observatory collects, updates, and documents Syrian data from 13 trusted international sources, and presents it in Arabic with the reference period, methodology, licence, and original source. Coverage and reference periods vary by source; gaps are never filled with invented values.
- 13
- integrated real sources
- 13
- public datasets
- 502
- curated indicators
- 540,036
- published values
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Selected signals from the latest available periods
Refugees from Syria worldwide
4.9 million people
2025 · UNHCR
Returned refugees from Syria worldwide
1.3 million people
2025 · UNHCR
Internally displaced persons (DTM estimate)
5.9 million people
2026-04 · IOM DTM
IDP returnees (DTM estimate)
2.1 million people
2026-04 · IOM DTM
Population, total
25.6 million people
2025 · World Bank
GDP current US$
23.7 billion current US$
2022 · World Bank
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Only domains with enough real data are public today; empty categories are not published merely to complete a menu.
Human Movement
Pages for understanding refugees, returns, internal displacement, and population change through connected indicators, sources, and methodology.
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Agriculture & Environment
This observatory connects crops, rainfall, water, livestock, and food security in one updateable picture.
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Economy & Trade
A pathway for understanding inflation, GDP, trade, imports, employment, and aid through comparable indicators.
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Humanitarian Funding
Requirements, funding, coverage, and cluster allocations for the primary response plan inside Syria.
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Health
Annual national health indicators for Syria: life expectancy, child and maternal mortality, immunization coverage, health workforce and beds, and disease burden—signals of the health system’s recovery from one trusted source.
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Education
Annual national education indicators for Syria: out-of-school rates, enrolment ratios, literacy, completion, school life expectancy, and public spending on education—signals of the war’s toll on schooling and the sector’s recovery.
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Energy
Annual national electricity indicators for Syria: total generation, the fuel mix (gas, oil, hydro, solar), fossil and renewable shares, demand, demand per capita, and power-sector emissions—a picture of the electricity crisis and the energy sector’s recovery.
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Syria humanitarian response plan funding
Annual requirements, paid/committed funding, cluster allocations, and top donors for the primary Syria response plan. Regional and event-specific appeals are excluded.
- License
- OCHA FTS public API terms (no explicit reuse license stated)
- Last source check
- 2026-08-28
- Time coverage
- 2012-06-05–2026-12-31
- Data type
- Source-published
WFP Syria market food prices by governorate
Monthly market prices for food and essential commodities in Syria from the World Food Programme (2011 onward). The published value is the median of a governorate's market prices for the month, in SYP and USD as separate series.
- License
- CC BY-IGO 3.0
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Time coverage
- 2011-04-01–2026-05-31
- Data type
- Source-published
Humanitarian risk and needs — HDX HAPI
The INFORM Risk Index (overall, hazard, vulnerability, coping) and Syria’s global rank, plus total people in need and targeted from the Humanitarian Needs Overview. National annual values.
- License
- Mixed: CC BY; CC BY-IGO 3.0
- Last source check
- 2026-08-16
- Time coverage
- 2024-01-01–2026-12-31
- Data type
- Source-published
OpenStreetMap mapped infrastructure in Syria
Counts of mapped facilities (health, education, energy, water, economy, heritage) per Syrian governorate and countrywide. Crowdsourced minimum bounds, snapshotted on each sync.
© OpenStreetMap contributors
- License
- ODbL 1.0
- Last source check
- 2026-08-15
- Time coverage
- 2026-07-12–2026-08-15
- Data type
- Partial crowdsourced coverage