Digital 2025: Syria
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This page contains all the data, insights, and trends you need to help you understand how people in Syria use digital devices, online platforms, and connected services in 2025.
If you want to know whether this is our most recent report on Syria, or if you’re looking for data on digital trends and behaviours in Syria for other years, you can find DataReportal’s full collection of (free!) reports on Syria by clicking here.
You’ll also find the complete Digital 2025 report for Syria in the “full report” section towards the bottom of this page, but we’ll start this article by taking a look at the essential headline numbers for Syria this year.
Just before that, we’d like to say a big thank you to Meltwater and to We Are Social for their support of the Global Digital Reports series in 2025.
Now, let’s start exploring the data…
The “state of digital” in Syria in 2025
Here are DataReportal’s essential headlines for the adoption and use of connected devices and services in Syria in 2025:
A total of 19.5 million cellular mobile connections were active in Syria in early 2025, with this figure equivalent to 77.6 percent of the total population. However, note that some of these connections may only include services such as voice and SMS, and some may not include access to the internet.
There were 9.01 million individuals using the internet in Syria at the start of 2025, when online penetration stood at 35.8 percent.
These headline stats offer a great overview of the “state of digital” in Syria at the start of 2025, but in order to make sense of how digital trends and behaviours have been evolving over time, we need to dig deeper into the data.
Let’s take a closer look at what the numbers tell us, starting with some valuable context relating to the population of Syria.
Population of Syria in 2025
The population of Syria stood at 25.2 million in January 2025.
Data shows that Syria’s population increased by 996 thousand (+4.1 percent) between early 2024 and the start of 2025.
Meanwhile, in early 2025, 58.3 percent of Syria’s population lived in urban centres, whereas 41.7 percent lived in rural areas.
At that time, 50.0 percent of Syria’s population was female, while 50.0 percent of the population was male.
Note: gender data were only available for “female” and “male” at the time of report production.
Syria’s population by age
At the beginning of 2025, the median age of Syria’s population was 23.3, with half of Syria’s population above this age, and the other half of the population below it.
For added context, here’s how Syria’s total population broke down by age group at the start of the year:
10.3 percent was between the ages of 0 and 4.
13.7 percent was between the ages of 5 and 12.
11.5 percent was between the ages of 13 and 17.
16.0 percent was between the ages of 18 and 24.
17.1 percent was between the ages of 25 and 34.
11.4 percent was between the ages of 35 and 44.
9.1 percent was between the ages of 45 and 54.
6.1 percent was between the ages of 55 and 64.
4.8 percent was aged 65 and above.
Note: percentages may not sum to 100 percent due to rounding.
Mobile connections in Syria in 2025
Data from GSMA Intelligence shows that there were 19.5 million cellular mobile connections in Syria at the beginning of 2025.
For perspective, many people make use of more than one mobile connection, so it’s not unusual for mobile connection figures to significantly exceed figures for total population.
For example, the same person might have one mobile connection for personal use, but also use a separate mobile connection for work activities. The rise of eSIMs has made this even easier over recent years.
However, this practice hasn’t yet pushed mobile connectivity rates in Syria beyond 100 percent, and GSMA Intelligence’s numbers indicate that mobile connections in Syria were equivalent to 77.6 percent of the total population in January 2025.
Looking at trends over time, the number of mobile connections in Syria increased by 1.3 million (+7.0 percent) between the start of 2024 and the beginning of 2025.
Meanwhile, GSMA Intelligence’s data suggests that 91.7% of mobile connections in Syria can now be considered “broadband”, which means that they connect via 3G, 4G, or 5G mobile networks.
However, devices that connect to “broadband” mobile networks do not necessarily use cellular mobile data — for example, some subscription plans may only include access to voice and SMS services — so this broadband figure should not be considered a proxy for mobile internet use.
Internet use in Syria in 2025
At the time of report production, the latest available data indicated that there were 9.01 million internet users in Syria in January 2025.
This means that Syria’s internet penetration rate stood at 35.8 percent of the total population at the start of the year.
Meanwhile, Kepios’s analysis indicates that the number of internet users in Syria increased by 356 thousand (+4.1 percent) between January 2024 and January 2025.
And for added perspective, Syria’s internet adoption rate (i.e. the percentage of the total population that uses the internet) remained unchanged during the same period.
But these user figures also suggest that 16.2 million people in Syria did not use the internet at the beginning of 2025, suggesting that 64.2 percent of the population remained “offline” at the start of the year.
However, complexities associated with the collection and analysis of internet user data mean that it can often take several months before research is ready for publication.
As a result, the latest published figures for internet use may under-represent current realities, and actual rates for internet adoption and year-on-year growth may be higher than the figures shown here suggest.
Please see our comprehensive notes on data for further details.
Internet connection speeds in Syria in 2025
Figures published by Ookla indicate that internet users in Syria could have expected the following internet connection speeds at the beginning of 2025, reported in megabits per second (Mbps):
Median mobile internet download speed via cellular data networks*: 12.68 Mbps.
Median fixed internet download speed: 3.40 Mbps.
Ookla’s data reveals that the median mobile internet download speed in Syria increased by 0.86 Mbps (+7.3 percent) in the twelve months to January 2025.
Meanwhile, the company’s data shows that the download speed of the typical fixed internet connection in Syria decreased by 0.65 Mbps (-16.0 percent) during the same period.
*Note: values for mobile internet connection speeds only include data transfer via cellular mobile networks (e.g. 3G, 4G, and 5G connections), and do not represent the speed of mobile connections via WiFi where the WiFi router connects to the internet via “fixed” infrastructure.
TikTok users in Syria in 2025
Figures published in TikTok’s advertising resources indicate that TikTok had 20.5 thousand users aged 18 and above in Syria in early 2025.
Note that TikTok allows marketers to target TikTok ads to users aged 13 and above via its advertising tools, but these tools only show audience data for users aged 18 and above.
And for context, TikTok’s figures indicate that TikTok ads reached 0.1 percent of all adults aged 18 and above in Syria at the start of 2025.
Meanwhile, TikTok’s ad reach in Syria was equivalent to 0.2 percent of the local internet user base at the beginning of the year, regardless of age.
In early 2025, 31.7 percent of TikTok’s adult ad audience in Syria was female, whereas 68.3 percent was male.
Note: at the time of report production, TikTok’s advertising resources only published audience gender data for “female” and “male” users.
TikTok user growth in Syria
Data published in TikTok’s own ad planning tools show that TikTok’s potential ad reach in Syria increased by 3,500 (+20.6 percent) between the beginning of 2024 and early 2025.
Meanwhile, figures indicate that the potential reach of ads on TikTok in Syria decreased by 8,000* (-28.1 percent) between October 2024 and January 2025.
Having said that, ad audiences often only account for a subset of a platform’s total users, and given that TikTok’s ad tools only publish data for users aged 18 and above, it’s important to remember that trends in TikTok’s ad reach figures may not necessarily match changes in the platform’s overall user base.
*Important note: in addition to regular changes in active user numbers, social media platforms may revise or “correct” the audience reach figures that they report in their advertising tools, and these interventions may result in an apparent decline in reported reach.
For example, platforms may remove accounts that do not meet their terms of service — such as when users create duplicate or “false” accounts — or when they suspect accounts to be engaging in “inauthentic” activity.
On occasion, these platform “corrections” may result in meaningful changes in reported reach, and such adjustments may significantly distort trends and values for change over time.
However, in many cases, such declines in reported ad reach do not indicate any change in legitimate platform use by “real” humans, and should not be interpreted as such.
As a result, we recommend significant caution when interpreting trends relating to negative changes in reported audience reach.
Please see our detailed notes on data to learn whether our analysis has detected such changes in relevant figures.
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Additional resources
Just before we get to the full report, here are some suggestions for further reading, which will provide additional context for our full set of Digital 2025 numbers for Syria:
Read our complete Digital 2025 Global Overview Report to get a comprehensive overview of the “state of digital” around the world in 2025.
Click here to see all of the Global Digital Reports we’ve published for Syria over the years.
Explore all of our reports on countries in the Western Asia region by clicking here.
Find all of the reports in the Digital 2025 series via this handy index page.
Visit our complete online library to see all of the (free!) reports in the Global Digital Reports series.
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Full report
You’ll find our complete Digital 2025: Syria report in the embed below (click here if you can’t see that, or if you can’t change the slides).