DATA & METHODOLOGY

Every number on this site, with its source

One downloadable file holds every figure behind every chart we publish, with a source URL, a date and a verification status per figure. Reuse it — CC BY 4.0.

Compiled: 2026-07-26 4 charts 16 figures

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Sourcing standards

Every figure carries its own source URL and a verification status. 'verified' = the figure was read directly from the cited primary or near-primary source. 'reported' = the figure comes from a credible secondary report citing a primary source we did not open directly. 'unverified' = we could not confirm the figure against a primary source and it is published with an explicit on-page flag. Ranges are published as ranges, never collapsed to a midpoint.

What the badges mean

  • Sourced Sourced. Every figure was read directly from the primary or near-primary source named beneath it.
  • Reported Reported. At least one figure comes from a credible secondary report citing a primary document we did not open ourselves. Still sourced — the source line names which report — but one step further from the original.
  • Estimate Estimate. A projection or an order-of-magnitude figure. Projections are drawn hatched and at 40% opacity so they can never be mistaken for a recorded value.
  • Unverified figure Unverified figure. We could not confirm the figure against a primary source. We publish it with this flag, or we do not publish it.

Ranges are published as ranges

Where a source gives a range, we chart the range. We never collapse it to a midpoint and we never present a projection with the same visual weight as a recorded value.

All monetary figures are nominal US dollars at current prices unless stated. Euro figures converted at the rate cited in the source article, not at a rate we chose.

Charts in the dataset

ID Title Verification Sources
chart-1 Syria's reconstruction bill dwarfs every pool of money currently on the table Reported World Bank, Syria Physical Damage and Reconstruction Assessment 2011–2024
Karam Shaar Advisory, 'Mapping MoUs in Syria: Shifting Investment Agendas', Syria in Figures Issue 14
The Arab Weekly / EU Brussels IX 'Standing with Syria' conference, 17 March 2025
chart-2 Rebuilding costs twice what the damage was recorded at — and housing is where the gap is widest Sourced World Bank, Syria Physical Damage and Reconstruction Assessment 2011–2024
chart-3 Inflation collapsed, the budget flipped to surplus, and growth turned — all within three years Sourced World Bank, Macro Poverty Outlook — Syrian Arab Republic, April 2026
chart-4 The single biggest economic change of 2026 was territorial, not financial Estimate Al Jazeera, 'It's expensive: Syria's electricity has improved, but challenges remain'
World Bank, Macro Poverty Outlook, April 2026

The figure index

Every figure we have published in prose rather than in a chart, with its source and its verification status. This is the list to check before quoting us, and the list to search if you want to know whether we hold a number at all.

16 of 16 figures

What we don't know

Publishing the gaps is part of the method. These are figures readers reasonably expect us to have and that no reliable source provides. We will not invent them.

  • No reliable national average for daily electricity supply hours exists. Ministerial claims (24h in some areas, April 2026), field reporting (5–6h in Damascus, July 2026) and secondary summaries (~4h nationally) are mutually inconsistent because they measure different things in different places. Umran will not publish a single national figure until a metered source exists.
  • No per-governorate dollar figures for damage or reconstruction cost are public. The World Bank names Aleppo, Rif Dimashq and Homs as worst-affected but publishes no values. Any governorate-level chart would be fabricated.
  • No public data on how much of the USD 25.9bn in signed MoUs has actually been disbursed. This is the single most important missing number in Syrian reconstruction reporting and is the reason Umran's Project Tracker exists.
  • Remittance inflows are effectively unmeasured post-2020. World Bank series for Syria has no recent observations. Any 'diaspora sends $X billion' claim should be treated as unsourced.
  • Housing units rebuilt, schools reopened, and hospitals restored are not published as a national time series by any body we could find.
  • UNICEF's 2.45 million out-of-school figure is dated 2025 and may not reflect the return of over 1.6 million refugees since.

Corrections log

No corrections have been issued yet. When one is, it appears here and on the article itself, dated.

Citing this data

The files at the site root change as the trackers are updated, so a citation pointing at them will drift away from what you quoted. Every month we freeze an immutable copy under a dated path. Cite the dated path — it will still return the same bytes in two years.

Suggested citation

Umran (2026). Reconstruction and cost-of-living datasets. Version 2026-07 [data set], 2026-07-28. https://umran-six.vercel.app/data/2026-07/ (CC BY 4.0).

Frozen versions

The live files — /chart-data.json, /projects.json, /cost-of-living.json — always hold the current figures. Use them to read, use a dated snapshot to cite.

Licence and reuse

CC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution to Umran and to the original source listed per figure.

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