SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

TABLE 1. POPULATION INFORMATION

							Average annual growth rate (%)
Year	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2007	2000 to 2007
Population (millions)	6.31	8.75	11.72	16.32	18.27	19.17	2.33
Population density (inhabitants/km˛)	34	47	63	88	99	104	2.42
Urban Population as % of total	43.5	46.8	48.4	51.2	53.5	53.5	0.63
Area (1000 km˛)	185.2	185.2	185.2	185.2	185.2	185.2

TABLE 2. GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)

							Average annual growth rate (%)
	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2006	2000 to 2006
GDP (millions of current US$)	148	1115	5833	19650	32409	37146	11.1
GDP (millions of constant 2000 US$)	3900	9797	11099	19650	24670	25929	4.7
GDP per capita (PPP* US$/capita)	NA	NA	NA	NA	3600
GDP per capita (current US$/capita)	23	128	481	1204	1774		71.3

TABLE 3. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

	Estimated available energy sources
	Fossil Fuels			Nuclear	Renewables
	Solid	Liquid	Gas	Uranium	Hydro	Other Renewable
Total amount in specific units*	NA	327	285	NA	3
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ)	NA	13.69	10.62	NA	0.01

TABLE 4. ENERGY STATISTICS

							Average annual growth rate (%)
	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	year*	1990-2005
Energy consumption**
- Total			0.33	0.8	1.04		8.0%
- Solids***
- Liquids			0.26	0.45	0.67		6.5%
- Gases			0.04	0.31	0.32		14.9%
- Nuclear
- Hydro			0.02	0.02	0.04		4.7%
- Other Renewables			0.01	0.01	0.02		4.7%
Energy production
- Total			0.93	1.5	1.15		1.4%
- Solids***
- Liquids			0.87	1.2	0.79		-0.6%
- Gases			0.04	0.3	0.3		14.4%
- Nuclear
- Hydro			0.02	0.02	0.04		4.7%
- Other Renewables			0.01	0.01	0.02		4.7%
Net import (Import - Export)
- Total			-0.6	-0.7	-0.11		-10.7%

TABLE 5. THE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION BY SECTOR OF CONSUMPTION* ¹

SECTOR	IN 2007	IN 2009
Household	52.29%	51.6%
Service	9.6%	10.8%
Industry	23.76%	23.49%
Agriculture	6.08%	7.02%
Extractive Industries and Refining of Petroleum	2.53%	2.77%
Governmental Bodies, Temples and Street Lighting	4.59%	4.01%
Handicrafts and Others	1. 16%	1.02%

TABLE 6. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

							Average annual growth rate (%)
	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2009	2000 to 2009
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe)
- Thermal			1.835	4.505	5.079	6.37	3.9
- Hydro			0.550	1.067	1.150	1.151	0.9
- Nuclear
- Wind
- Geothermal
- other renewable
- Total			2.335	5.572	6.229	7.52	3.4
Electricity production (TW.h)
- Thermal			10.636	22.714	31.49	41.38	6.9
- Hydro			1.59	2.5	3.45	1.95	0.97
- Nuclear
- Wind
- Geothermal
- other renewable
- Total (1)			12.226	25.217	34.94	43.3	6.2
Total Electricity consumption (TW.h)			8.9	18.53	27.06	32.5	6.4

TABLE 7. CAPACITY OF ELECTRICAL PLANTS (MW)*

Hydro Power Plant	Winter time	Summer time
AL THAORA Plant	650	200
TECHREEN Plant	450	200
ALBAATH Plant	51	50

TABLE 8. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

	1970	1980	1990	2000	2005	2009
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita)			27.9	48.8	57.04	59.22
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita)			719.9	1458	1865	2147
Electricity production/Energy production (%)			4.4	5.9	10.7	14.4
Nuclear/Total electricity (%)			0	0	0	0
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1)			-186.3	-92.8	-11.1	-10

TABLE 9. STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Station

Types

Net Capacity

Operator

Status

Reactor Supplier

Criticality

Construction Date

Grid Date

Commercial Date

Shutdown Date

UCF for year 2011