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Key facts
- Currency: Jordanian dinar
- Capital city: Amman
- Region: Western Asia
- Continent: Asia
- Land area: 88,794 km²
- Population: 11,285,869
- Political Leader: Abdullah II (King)
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Metrics
General information
Business
Central government debt | 75.97 % of GDP |
Expense | 28.17 % of GDP |
GDP | 48,653,400,000.00 current US$ |
Inflation | 4.23 annual % |
Self-employed | 11.67 % of total employment |
Tax revenue | 15.98 % of GDP |
Unemployment | 19.05 % of total labor force |
Vulnerable employment | 8.54 % of total employment |
Environment
Agricultural land | 10,230.00 km² |
Alternative and nuclear energy | 1.92 % of total energy use |
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 20,974.10 kt |
Electricity production from coal sources | 0.00 % of total |
Electricity production from natural gas sources | 48.44 % of total |
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 0.28 % of total |
Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
Electricity production from oil sources | 50.59 % of total |
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 0.69 % of total |
Net energy imports | 96.81 % of energy use |
Fertility rate | 2.83 births per woman |
Forest area | 975 km² |
Fossil fuel energy consumption | 97.61 % of total |
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 4,947.63 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Median age | 19.70 years |
Methane emissions | 6,678.10 kt of CO2 equivalent |
Nitrous oxide emissions | 1,225.86 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
Female Population | 5,438,953 |
Male Population | 5,846,915 |
Renewable energy consumption | 11.04 % of total final energy consumption |
Rural land area | 86,673.40 km² |
Rural population | 922,394 |
Urban land area | 2,170.09 km² |
Urban population | 10,363,475 |
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 0.04 % of total population |
Health
Birth rate | 21.95 per 1,000 people |
Death rate | 3.87 per 1,000 people |
Health expenditure per capita | 298.64 current US$ |
Health expenditure | 7.47 % of GDP |
Hospital beds | 1.47 per 1,000 people |
Life expectancy at birth | 74 years |
Suicide mortality rate | 1.60 per 100,000 population |
Other
Access to electricity | 99.90 % of population |
Individuals using the Internet | 86.00 % of population |
Net migration | -157,392 |
Press freedom | 1.81 |
Politics
Armed forces personnel | 116,000 |
Democracy score | 3.93 |
Democracy type | Authoritarian |
Military expenditure | 4.84 % of GDP |
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 12.31 % |
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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago