Purchasing Power Parity · Syria
Cost of living in 🇸🇾 Syria vs the United States
Syria has a US-relative price level of 0.156 (US = 1.0) — about 84% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2023.
What US salaries are worth in Syria
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $320,513 | $7,800 |
| $80,000 | $512,821 | $12,480 |
| $120,000 | $769,231 | $18,720 |
| $180,000 | $1,153,846 | $28,080 |
| $250,000 | $1,602,564 | $39,000 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Syria's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
These sources disagree — the figure above is the Penn World Table figure alone, decided by a person, not a blend.
Exchange regime: dual rate. The World Bank official-rate series ends in 2022 at 2,506 pounds per dollar; the Central Bank unified its bulletins on 23 March 2025 inside a +/-5% band (widened to +/-7% in August) at roughly 11,000-15,000, and a black-market rate persists beside it. The World Bank price level (0.322, 2022) divides by a rate five times too strong. Penn World Table (0.156, 2023) is the independent vote.
Checked 2026-09-09 against secondary sources; the authority's own page could not be read.
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Syria is outlined.
Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇪🇬 Egypt — price level 0.154
- 🇲🇲 Myanmar — price level 0.142
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria — price level 0.128
- 🇱🇦 Laos — price level 0.216
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan — price level 0.217
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Syria compared to the United States?
- Syria has a price level of 0.156 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 84% cheaper than the United States), based on the Penn World Table figure alone — the sources disagree and a curated exchange-regime register names the one to believe, reference year 2023.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Syria?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $641,026 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Syria; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $15,600.
- Where does the Syria cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, refreshed at build time. For Syria the sources disagree (dual rate): The World Bank official-rate series ends in 2022 at 2,506 pounds per dollar; the Central Bank unified its bulletins on 23 March 2025 inside a +/-5% band (widened to +/-7% in August) at roughly 11,000-15,000, and a black-market rate persists beside it. The World Bank price level (0.322, 2022) divides by a rate five times too strong. Penn World Table (0.156, 2023) is the independent vote.