HDX HAPI
Standardized national humanitarian indicators from the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data. The INFORM Risk Index is a 0–10 composite of hazard, vulnerability, and coping capacity, updated yearly (CC BY). People-in-need and targeted figures come from the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO): "in need" is the total requiring assistance and "targeted" is whom the response plans to reach — both are planning estimates, not a census (CC BY-IGO 3.0). Values are national.
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Ember
These are national electricity indicators for Syria compiled by Ember from official and international sources, with some values estimated or modelled to fill gaps, and are not governorate-level measurements. Generation and demand data measure electricity produced and consumed on the grid, and may not fully capture the private generators widespread during the electricity crisis. Values are annual and national.
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UN Comtrade
Syria rarely reports its own trade to Comtrade, so Sanad uses mirror statistics: what partner countries report importing from or exporting to Syria. The partner direction is flipped to Syria’s flow (a partner’s export to Syria is a Syrian import), the largest partners are ranked, and the remainder is folded into "other". Coverage and completeness depend on how fully partners report, and recent years may be revised. Values are national and annual.
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WHO Global Health Observatory
Annual Syria-level values as published by WHO — some modelled estimates, some nationally reported — and continuously revisable. Sanad shows only the national both-sexes total: for each indicator it keeps the aggregate row (both sexes, and the total wealth-quintile or residence band where those dimensions exist), one value per year, with no sex or governorate breakdown. The latest available year varies by indicator.
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UNESCO UIS
These are UNESCO UIS national series for Syria, both sexes, not governorate-level measurements. Some values are reported by national authorities and some are UIS estimates, and coverage varies sharply by year—out-of-school rates run to recent years while some spending and completion figures predate the war. Sanad keeps the national total for each year.
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NASA POWER
These values are MERRA-2 climate reanalysis model output, not rain-gauge measurements. They are useful for reading trends, but local accuracy is affected by model biases and by how complex terrain is represented within a grid cell. Sanad samples the roughly 0.5° monthly grid at each governorate centroid; this is not a spatial average of the governorate.
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FAOSTAT
These are national series for Syria, not governorate-level measurements. FAOSTAT distinguishes official figures from values estimated or imputed by FAO; the war years include estimated or imputed observations and should not all be read as Syrian official reporting.
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OpenStreetMap
These are counts of features mapped in OpenStreetMap, so they measure mapping activity and coverage rather than the true number on the ground. Community contributors create the data, and coverage may be incomplete or uneven between areas. The data is licensed under ODbL and must be attributed to OpenStreetMap contributors.
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World Development Indicators — World Bank
The World Bank compiles World Development Indicators from national and international sources, with series-specific methodologies. Syria series contain long gaps caused by interrupted reporting and conflict conditions, and some indicators stop before recent years. A blank means no value is available, not zero.
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UNHCR
These series cover populations registered or otherwise recorded within the categories included in UNHCR statistics; they are not a census of every displaced person. Data comes primarily from governments and UNHCR operations, and coverage varies by country and population category, so unregistered displacement is not fully counted.
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World Food Programme (WFP)
Market prices collected monthly by the World Food Programme from market monitors since 2011. Sanad publishes, per governorate, the median of that governorate's market prices for the month — not a single market and not below the governorate. SYP and USD are separate series (USD is converted at the exchange rate at collection time). Some values are WFP "aggregate" figures. Unofficial/parallel-market exchange rates are not included.
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IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)
These are field estimates from IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) baseline rounds, activated in Syria from February 2025 after the December 2024 shift — not a registration of individuals. They count internally displaced persons and returnees per governorate per round, and figures are revised round to round. They differ methodologically from UNHCR registration counts, so the two should not be summed or directly compared.
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OCHA Financial Tracking Service (FTS)
Figures are as reported to FTS by donors and implementing organizations and are continuously revisable. Sanad includes paid contributions and commitments and excludes pledges. The series covers only the primary inside-Syria response plan; it never adds the regional 3RP or global/event-specific appeals. Data is national with no governorate breakdown.
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