Rankings · Syria

Presidents

• Real GDP during each president's tenureCentral Bureau of Statistics national accounts as the World Bank publishes them (NY.GDP.MKTP.KN, constant 2000 prices, old pounds), yearly to 2022, its last year
• Real GDP per person during each president's tenureCentral Bureau of Statistics GDP as the World Bank publishes it (constant 2000 prices), over the UN's estimates of the people living in Syria (World Bank)
• Unemployment rate during each president's tenureCentral Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it: yearly rounds, the last in 2011; no survey has been published since the war began
• Employment rate, 15 and over during each president's tenureCentral Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 and over, as ILOSTAT compiles it: yearly rounds, the last in 2011; no survey has been published since the war began (the employment rate to 2009)
• Inflation (CPI) during each president's tenureCentral Bureau of Statistics consumer price index: the IMF's copy (CPI, spliced across base years) to December 2019, FAOSTAT's (official figures) from January 2020, change on the same month a year earlier; FAOSTAT has no month of 2021, so neither 2021 nor 2022 has a rate
• Consumer prices (CPI) during each president's tenureCentral Bureau of Statistics consumer price index: the IMF's copy (CPI, all items, spliced into one index by the IMF, 2010 = 100) to December 2019, FAOSTAT's (official figures, 2015 = 100) from January 2020 rescaled to it; no month of 2021
• Exchange rate during each president's tenureCentral Bank of Syria official rate: the IMF's copy (ER, period average) from January 2011 to December 2022, FAOSTAT's after; in new pounds (one new pound for 100 old since 1 January 2026), so 47 old pounds in 2011 read 0.47. Before 2011 the IMF's series is the fixed rate of 11.225 old pounds kept for some public accounts, far from the rate trade used, so those years are left out; the street rate was far weaker than the official one for most of the war
• Population during each president's tenureWorld Bank (SP.POP.TOTL) from the UN's World Population Prospects, mid-year, the people living in Syria (refugees abroad not counted); the last census was in 2004
• Crude oil output during each president's tenureUS Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics: crude oil including lease condensate, thousand barrels a day, monthly, the EIA's estimates from national, OPEC and industry sources
• Happiness during each president's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published
• Government effectiveness during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Regulatory quality during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Rule of law during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Control of corruption during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Corruption perceptions index during each president's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
• Voice and accountability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
• Electoral democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Liberal democracy index during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Freedom of expression during each president's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
• Political stability during each president's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval