Syria holds 250,000 thousand metric tons of phosphate rock reserves, about 0.34 per cent of the world total, ranking fifteenth of the twenty-four countries the survey names
Claim ID
PHOSRES-001
Exact or summary claim
Syria holds 250,000 thousand metric tons of phosphate rock reserves, about 0.34 per cent of the world total, ranking fifteenth of the twenty-four countries the survey names
Destination
Chapter 9
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
United States Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, Phosphate Rock, February 2026, World Mine Production and Reserves table, read at the render research/CH9_PHOS_mcs2026_phosphate_pages/p002.png (SRC-379)
Source type
Official statistical publication of a national geological survey
Published
2026-02
Accessed
2026-08-23
Measure and scope
Phosphate rock reserves in thousand metric tons, Syrian Arab Republic, as published in the February 2026 edition; the share is 250,000 divided by the world total of 73,000,000, which is 0.3425 per cent, and the rank is among the twenty-four countries named in the table, excluding the 'Other countries' line
Known conflict
THE WORLD TOTAL MOVED BETWEEN EDITIONS AND THE MANUSCRIPT USES THE OLDER ONE. Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 gives 74,000,000 and the 2026 edition gives 73,000,000. Syria's own 250,000 is unchanged, so the share moves only from 0.3378 to 0.3425 per cent and still rounds to 0.34, and the rank is fifteenth in both. THE RANK DEPENDS ON A STATED RULE: three countries share 1,000,000 in the 2026 table, so tie handling must be declared
Specialist
Mineral reserves estimation
Downstream
Chapters 9 and 10
Action
Print the share and the rank with the EDITION NAMED, because the chapter previously described the 2025 table as 'the current table' and it was not. State the tie rule used for the ranking and state that the count excludes the 'Other countries' line