A look at the rate of changes in the population of Syria and around the world (1950 - 2015)

Population projections of United Nations put a flowery and positive recovery picture about Syria's total population in the future (https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/):

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/2_Probabilistic%20Projections/1_Population/1_Total%20Population/Syrian%20Arab%20Republic.png

If we look at the rate of changes in the population instead of the total population of Syria and around the world, we can reveal wars on the historical timeline (see Syria, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, ...)

y-axis: 100 * (population / average population - 1)
data: United Nations population statistics (https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/, https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DVD/Files/1_Indicators%20(Standard)/EXCEL_FILES/1_Population/WPP2017_POP_F01_1_TOTAL_POPULATION_BOTH_SEXES.xlsx)

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