UN Assistant Secretary-General: Per capita income in Syria should not be less than $7,500 annually

Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Arab States announced that he will visit Syria the day after tomorrow, Saturday, at the head of a UN delegation to present a support program for the reconstruction process and the structural, institutional and economic reforms necessary for the return of recovery and the return of economic life in Syria.

Abdallah Al-Dardari, who was speaking to Syrian businessmen in Turkey, said that if we wanted to continue with the 1% growth rate, which is the annual growth rate over the past five years, Syria will return to the size of the economy in 2010 by 2080, expressing his belief that no one would accept waiting 65 years for the size of Syria’s GDP to return to $62 billion, as it was in 2010.

According to the “Syria Steps” website, Al-Dardari added that this result was much less than Syria’s capabilities, stressing that a country like Syria should have an annual GDP of no less than $150 billion and an annual per capita income of no less than $7,500.

The UN Assistant Secretary-General spoke about the scenario of Syria returning to the GDP that was achieved in 2010 by 2035, noting that this is the best applicable scenario and may seem like a fantasy today, but with the capabilities that Syrians and businessmen have spread all over the world in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Europe, America and others, nothing should be impossible for us, he said. He explained that to return to the GDP achieved in 2010 in 2035, we need a growth rate of 7.5% and public investment must increase by 10% and private investment must also increase by 10% annually.