Jordan

Facts

Population:  5,153,378 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  37.23% (male 980,345; female 938,081) 15-64 years:  59.44% (male 1,633,579; female 1,429,631) 65 years and over:  3.33% (male 84,815; female 86,927) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  3% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  25.44 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  2.62 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  7.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.14 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.98 male(s)/female total population:  1.1 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  20.36 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  77.53 years male:  75.1 years female:  80.12 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  3.29 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.02% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  NA
Nationality:  noun:  Jordanian(s) adjective:  Jordanian
Ethnic groups:  Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1%
Religions:  Sunni Muslim 92%, Christian 6% (majority Greek Orthodox, but some Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Protestant denominations), other 2% (several small Shi'a Muslim and Druze populations) (2000 est.)
Languages:  Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and middle classes
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  86.6% male:  93.4% female:  79.4% (1995 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $17.3 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  2% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $3,500 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  3% industry:  25% services:  72% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:  30% (1998 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  2.4% highest 10%:  34.7% (1991)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  0.7% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  1.15 million note:  in addition, at least 300,000 workers are employed abroad (1997 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:  industry 11.4%, commerce, restaurants, and hotels 10.5%, construction 10%, transport and communications 8.7%, agriculture 7.4%, other services 52% (1992)
Unemployment rate:  15% official rate; actual rate is 25%-30% (1999 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $2.8 billion expenditures:  $3.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:  phosphate mining, petroleum refining, cement, potash, light manufacturing, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:  3.8% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  6.657 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  99.79% hydro:  0.21% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  6.594 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  4 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  407 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  wheat, barley, citrus, tomatoes, melons, olives; sheep, goats, poultry
Exports:  $2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  phosphates, fertilizers, potash, agricultural products, manufactures
Exports - partners:  India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, EU, Indonesia, UAE, Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Ethiopia
Imports:  $4 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  crude oil, machinery, transport equipment, food, live animals, manufactured goods
Imports - partners:  Iraq, Germany, US, Japan, UK, Italy, Turkey, Malaysia, Syria, China
Debt - external:  $8 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  ODA, $850 million (1996 est.)
Currency:  Jordanian dinar (JOD)
Currency code:  JOD
Exchange rates:  Jordanian dinars per US dollar - 0.7090 (1996-present ) note:  since May 1989, the Jordanian dinar has been pegged to a group of currencies
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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