| Demographics of Jordan | |
|---|---|
 Jordan population pyramid in 2020 | |
| Population | 2023 census: 11,180,568 (84th)
2019 estimate: 10,392,309 (86th) |
| Density | 116/km2 (300/sq mi) (70th) |
| Growth rate | 2.05% (2017 est.) |
| Birth rate | 17.9 births/1,000 population |
| Death rate | 3.6 deaths/1,000 population |
| Life expectancy | 74.8 years (2017 est.) |
| • male | 73.4 years |
| • female | 76.3 years |
| Fertility rate | 2.6 children born/woman |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 34.4% |
| 15–64 years | 62,02% |
| 65 and over | 3.7% |
| Sex ratio | |
| Total | 1.02 male(s)/female (2016 est.) |
| At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female |
| Under 15 | 1.05 male(s)/female |
| 15–64 years | 1.00 male(s)/female |
| 65 and over | 0.89 male(s)/female |
| Nationality | |
| Nationality | Jordanian |
| Major ethnic | Arabs |
| Minor ethnic |
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| Language | |
| Official | Modern Standard Arabic |
| Spoken | Jordanian Arabic, English |
Jordan has a population of more than 11.1 million inhabitants as of 2023.[1] Jordanians (Arabic: أردنيون) are the citizens of Jordan. Around 94% of Jordanians are Arabs, while the remaining 6% belong to ethnic minorities, including Circassians, Chechens, Armenians and Kurds.[2][3] In early 2016 about 30% of the population were non-citizens, a figure including refugees, legal and illegal immigrants.[4] Jordan's annual population growth rate stands at 3.05% as of 2023, with an average birth rate of 2.8. There were 1,977,534 households in Jordan in 2015, with an average of 4.8 persons per household.[4]
The official language is Arabic, while English is the second most widely spoken language by Jordanians. It is also widely used in commerce and government. In 2016, about 84% of Jordan's population live in urban towns and cities.[2] Many Jordanians and people of Jordanian descent live across the world, mainly in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, United States, Canada and Turkey.[citation needed]
In 2016, Jordan was named as the largest refugee hosting country per capita in the world, followed by Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon.[5] Jordan hosts refugees mainly from the Palestinian territories, Syria, and Iraq, as well as smaller communities from other nations. There are also hundreds of thousands of workers from Egypt, Indonesia and South Asia, who work as domestic and construction workers.
- ^ "Population Clock". Jordanian Department of Statistics. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ a b "The World Fact book – Jordan". CIA World Factbook. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ Al-Khatib, Mahmoud A.; Al-Ali, Mohammed N. "Language and Cultural Shift Among the Kurds of Jordan" (PDF). p. 12. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ a b Ghazal, Mohammad (22 January 2016). "Population stands at around 9.5 million, including 2.9 million guests". The Jordan Times. Archived from the original on 8 February 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ^ "Jordan tops list of refugee-host countries — Amnesty". Jordan Times. 2016-10-04. Archived from the original on 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2018-01-30.