The Syrian Commission for Family and Population Affairs launches the Population Status Report in Syria 2020

Damascus (ST): In the presence of the Prime Minister Hussein Arnous, the Syrian Commission for Family and Population Affairs launched today the report on the status of the population in Syria 2020, entitled (Return and Stability), at the Damarose Hotel in Damascus.

The report represents the fourth edition of the population status reports in Syria, and it gains its importance from the fact that it provides an objective treatment of the population situation based on reliable data in terms of source and methodology.

Arnous affirmed that the report reflects the characteristics of economic and social development, assesses population needs, and focuses on alleviating the repercussions of the war on the Syrian society.

“The economic siege and economic coercive measures imposed on Syria have caused a significant decline in job opportunities for young people,” the premier said.

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Mohammad Saif Al-Din, for his part, said that the report is a guide for dialogue among all the parties that are concerned in population and development issues to help them understand the population situation in Syria during the war period and diagnose the gaps it has caused.

The report was completed within the framework of the joint cooperation plan between the Commission and the United Nations Population Fund and comes within a series of qualitative studies and reports that the Commission has been working on and completing since its establishment in 2003.

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