Syria's collapse, in 7 charts

(Before It's News)

Since the war in Syria began in 2011, more than 250,000 people have been killed and more than half of Syria's population has been displaced from their homes. Devastation on this scale is almost impossible to understand in the abstract: What does that kind of disaster do to a country? These numbers on indicators that feel familiar — things like GDP and school attendance rates — can help show how utterly the war has gutted this once-stable nation.

Getting reliable numbers on Syria's economy is tough. But a solid estimate, from a UN-funded study by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, found that Syria's GDP shrank by a staggering 62 percent between 2011 and 2014. Here's some perspective on how bad this is: Between 1929 and 1932, the worst years of the Great Depression, global GDP fell by 15 percent. Syria's depression is more than four times as severe …. http://www.vox.com

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