Syrian diaspora refers to Syrian people and their descendants who chose or were forced to emigrate from Syria and now reside in other countries as immigrants, or as refugees of the Syrian Civil War.
The estimated number of people of Syrian descent residing outside Syria ranges from 8 to 13 million. The UNHCR reports that 4.9 million global refugees in 2015 were Syrian nationals. The Syrian nationality law does not grant diaspora Syrians an automatic right of return to Syria, and under the controversial 2018 Absentees Law, the Assad regime confiscated property of millions of Syrians.
Populations
CountryEstimateUpper Estimate Region Country article in English Wikipedia+1,000,000 according to a research conducted by IBGE in 2008, covering only the states of Amazonas, Paraíba, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso and Distrito Federal, 0.9% of caucasoid Brazilian respondents said they had family origins in the Middle EastIBGE. IBGE: Características Étnico-Raciais da População .4,000,000 people of Syrian ancestry (according to Brazilian government) South America Syrian Brazilian2,310,408 registered (February 2026) EuropeAsia Syrians in Turkey532,357 registered (December 2025) Middle East Syrians in Lebanon404,047 registered (February 2026)1,400,000 estimated (August 2015) Middle East Syrians in Jordan1,281,000 (2023) European Union Syrians in Germany1,500,0002,000,000 South America Syrian Argentine449,314 (2022 census)449,000 Middle East Syrians in Saudi Arabia310‚000 estimated (December 2024) Middle East Syrian in iraq250,000 estimated (2017) Africa>250,000 estimated (2016) Middle East Syrians in the United Arab Emirates250 000 (2021) European Union Syrians in Sweden187,331 (by ancestry, 2016 U.S Census Bureau) North America Syrian American107,976 registered (February 2026) North Africa and Middle East 120,000 estimated (2015) Middle East Syrians in Kuwait98,250 (by ancestry, 2021 Census) North America Syrian Canadian88,204 (2015) European Union Syrians in Greece80,000 (2024) European Union Syrians in France68,000 (2019) European Union Syrians in Austria50,000 – 84,700 North Africa and Middle East Syrians in Algeria29,096 (Syrian-born resident, 2021) Oceania Syrian Australians24,800 (2019)115,000 Middle East15,632 (Syrian-born resident, 2015)1,000,000 Venezuelans of Syrian descent Latin America Syrian Venezuelan15,000 (Syrian-born, 2024) Sub-Saharan Africa Syrians in Ivory Coast10,403 (2022) European Union Syrians in Finland (Overseas France)10,000Caribbean8,848 England & Wales unknown in Scotland and 2,000 in Northern Ireland. (2019)EuropeSyrians in the United Kingdom
See also Lebanese diaspora List of Syrian refugee camps in Jordan Little Syria, Manhattan Refugees of the Syrian Civil War Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Jordan Syrians in Lebanon Syrian refugee camps
References
External links Syrian diaspora at Flickr Commons