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Jordan

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Jordan is a country. The capital city is Amman, located in the Western Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 88,794 km², a population of 11,439,213 people and uses the currency Jordanian dinar. The King is Abdullah II.

Key facts

currency: Jordanian dinar
capital city: Amman
region: Western Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 88,794 km²
population: 11,439,213 people
political leader: Abdullah II (King)

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central government debt: 100.91 % of GDP
expense: 28.80 % of GDP
GDP: 50,967,475,352.11 current US$
inflation: 2.08 annual %
self-employed workers: 11.70 % of total employment
tax revenue: 17.47 % of GDP
unemployment: 17.97 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 8.36 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 116,000 people
democracy score: 3.93
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 92.50 % of population
military expenditure: 4.91 % of GDP
net migration: -17,445 people
press freedom: 1.81
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 12.31 %
birth rate: 21.62 per 1,000 people
death rate: 3.96 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 299.07 current US$
health expenditure: 7.29 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.01 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.38 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 74
suicide mortality rate: 1.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 10,230.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 1.92 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 23.58 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
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: 2.79 births per woman
forest area: 975 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 97.61 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 33.41 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 20.30
methane emissions: 5.94 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.09 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 5,535,962 people
male population: 5,903,251 people
renewable energy consumption: 11.50 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 86,673.40 km²
rural population: 912,849 people
urban land area: 2,170.09 km²
urban population: 10,526,364 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.04 % of total population

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