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.
Press
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Al-Akhbar
(Pro-government), Amman
Al-Arab al-Youm
(Independent), Amman
(Pro-government), Amman
http://www.addustour.com/
(Independent), Amman
http://www.alghad.jo/
Al-Hadath
(Political weekly), Amman
Al-Hawadeth
(Independent weekly), Amman
Al-Majd
Amman
Jordan in the News
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Jordan’s surprise deportation of four leading Hamas figures to Qatar has prompted a chorus of condemnation from Arab commentators. The Nov. 21 expulsion of Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal and three other leading Hamas members punctuated a crisis that began in August with a crackdown on the group’s activities.
An attempt by the Jordanian government to restrict the activities of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Amman has sparked a rift within Jordan's leading Islamist movement and has raised questions about the future of Hamas's political presence in Jordan, reports the Palestinian-expatriate daily Al-Quds al-Arabi of London.
Israel's decision to cut back water supplies to neighboring Jordan has helped to warm the Hashemite Kingdom's relations with its long-time adversary Syria, discomfiting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, writes Danny Rubenstein in Tel Aviv's liberal Ha'aretz.
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