Country or area · Western Asia · Asia · UN WPP 2024

Jordan population

Jordan population now

11,649,839

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 10.8–12.6 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 11,439,214

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 11.5895 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 10.8–12.6 million
Median age: 25.9
Aged 65+: 5.0%

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male female projection · one cell = 2,000 people

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JOR · 1950–2100 · in brief

Jordan in numbers

Jordan had 11,439,214 people in mid-2023, the 84th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.14% of the world's people. That is 26.1 times its 1950 population of 439 thousand.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 21.3 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 10.2 million to 40.9 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 18.1 in 1950 and 25.3 in 2023; the projection has 44.1 in 2100. 4.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 25.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2096 at 12.6 million.

Among countries it ranks 84th in 2023, 79th in 2050 and 73rd in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Belgium in 2027, Haiti in 2032 and Tunisia in 2032. It is overtaken by the Dominican Republic in 2026, Togo in 2058 and the United Arab Emirates in 2068.

Population, mid-2023: 11,439,214
Rank by population, 2023: 84 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.14%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.63% · +182,950 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 129
Land area, 2023: 88,794 km²
Births, 2023: 235,776
Deaths, 2023: 34,873
Net migration, 2023: −17,445
Children per woman, 2023: 2.64
Median age, 2023: 25.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 77.8 years
In a city, 2025: 73 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 438,802
Projected, mid-2050: 16,367,355
Projected, mid-2100: 21,322,926

JOR · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Jordan, 1950–2100

Jordan: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	423,438		20,464	10,866	7.44	40.9
1951	estimate	454,166		22,103	11,196	7.44	42.0
1952	estimate	488,136		23,879	11,515	7.42	43.2
1953	estimate	524,753		25,818	11,818	7.41	44.5
1954	estimate	563,444		27,867	12,122	7.40	45.6
1955	estimate	604,247		30,149	12,445	7.42	46.8
1956	estimate	646,887		32,522	12,679	7.44	48.0
1957	estimate	691,315		34,962	12,885	7.46	49.2
1958	estimate	737,395		37,456	13,049	7.48	50.5
1959	estimate	784,249		40,010	13,179	7.51	51.6
1960	estimate	830,969		42,797	13,306	7.60	52.7
1961	estimate	875,973		45,525	13,382	7.70	53.7
1962	estimate	919,208		47,990	13,392	7.79	54.6
1963	estimate	961,901		50,243	13,385	7.85	55.5
1964	estimate	1,007,527		52,488	13,283	7.91	56.5
1965	estimate	1,063,754		54,952	13,318	7.93	57.3
1966	estimate	1,135,127		58,364	13,784	7.99	57.8
1967	estimate	1,221,592		62,589	13,799	8.06	59.0
1968	estimate	1,320,774		67,521	14,185	8.13	59.8
1969	estimate	1,424,147		71,966	14,535	8.19	60.5
1970	estimate	1,522,052		76,080	15,757	8.18	59.8
1971	estimate	1,608,274		79,684	14,922	8.15	61.8
1972	estimate	1,682,015		82,526	14,816	8.12	62.5
1973	estimate	1,747,096		84,737	14,679	8.06	63.1
1974	estimate	1,809,092		86,731	14,521	8.00	63.6
1975	estimate	1,869,272		88,732	14,339	7.92	64.2
1976	estimate	1,928,838		90,119	14,139	7.83	64.7
1977	estimate	1,987,515		92,067	13,966	7.72	65.1
1978	estimate	2,050,489		93,705	13,797	7.59	65.6
1979	estimate	2,116,702		95,748	13,671	7.45	66.0
1980	estimate	2,191,062		98,097	13,589	7.29	66.5
1981	estimate	2,277,311		100,307	13,556	7.12	66.9
1982	estimate	2,373,723		103,029	13,555	6.96	67.4
1983	estimate	2,480,130		106,487	13,623	6.81	67.8
1984	estimate	2,594,485		109,786	13,692	6.67	68.2
1985	estimate	2,714,891		113,626	13,826	6.53	68.6
1986	estimate	2,842,729		117,529	13,980	6.39	69.0
1987	estimate	2,977,044		120,693	14,158	6.20	69.3
1988	estimate	3,118,224		124,130	14,375	6.01	69.6
1989	estimate	3,267,854		127,264	14,656	5.80	69.9
1990	estimate	3,431,400		129,911	14,998	5.54	70.1
1991	estimate	3,812,416		146,043	16,400	5.33	70.2
1992	estimate	4,017,883		151,273	17,030	5.14	70.4
1993	estimate	4,237,502		157,157	17,694	4.97	70.6
1994	estimate	4,458,537		162,556	18,355	4.82	70.7
1995	estimate	4,664,275		166,583	18,932	4.68	70.9
1996	estimate	4,839,917		167,186	19,333	4.51	71.1
1997	estimate	4,985,115		164,908	19,551	4.32	71.3
1998	estimate	5,107,455		160,395	19,699	4.11	71.5
1999	estimate	5,221,114		158,060	19,860	3.97	71.7
2000	estimate	5,331,775		156,514	20,101	3.86	71.9
2001	estimate	5,442,116		156,809	20,354	3.80	72.1
2002	estimate	5,555,672		159,938	20,692	3.81	72.4
2003	estimate	5,676,461		163,500	21,058	3.82	72.6
2004	estimate	5,807,196		163,183	21,434	3.73	72.8
2005	estimate	5,956,927		163,738	21,925	3.65	73.0
2006	estimate	6,102,248		170,046	22,404	3.71	73.2
2007	estimate	6,752,494		192,454	24,882	3.80	73.4
2008	estimate	6,901,960		200,657	25,611	3.88	73.6
2009	estimate	7,077,772		204,024	26,374	3.84	73.7
2010	estimate	7,205,735		204,830	27,077	3.78	73.8
2011	estimate	7,388,352		204,950	27,873	3.69	73.9
2012	estimate	7,572,496		204,058	28,620	3.57	74.1
2013	estimate	7,601,759		199,206	28,734	3.45	74.3
2014	estimate	8,381,859		213,850	29,678	3.30	74.6
2015	estimate	9,201,562		225,764	30,267	3.14	75.1
2016	estimate	9,887,896		237,633	31,745	3.07	75.5
2017	estimate	10,124,837		237,611	31,704	2.99	76.1
2018	estimate	10,343,615		237,255	31,925	2.92	76.5
2019	estimate	10,580,997		237,304	32,367	2.85	76.9
2020	estimate	10,762,786		236,062	37,922	2.79	75.6
2021	estimate	10,967,669		235,810	45,015	2.73	74.2
2022	estimate	11,165,043		235,500	35,608	2.68	77.1
2023	estimate	11,347,484		235,776	34,873	2.64	77.8
2024	estimate	11,530,943		236,284	36,052	2.60	78.0
2025	projection	11,574,809	11.1–12.0 million	232,046	37,030	2.57	78.1
2026	projection	11,466,560	10.8–12.1 million	222,912	37,665	2.54	78.3
2027	projection	11,712,505	10.8–12.6 million	226,011	39,122	2.51	78.5
2028	projection	11,926,422	10.8–13.1 million	228,558	40,539	2.48	78.6
2029	projection	12,142,498	10.8–13.5 million	231,154	42,007	2.44	78.8
2030	projection	12,348,965	10.8–13.9 million	233,735	43,505	2.42	78.9
2031	projection	12,548,587	10.9–14.4 million	236,473	45,031	2.39	79.1
2032	projection	12,756,521	10.9–14.8 million	239,320	46,603	2.36	79.3
2033	projection	12,953,352	10.8–15.2 million	241,545	48,249	2.33	79.4
2034	projection	13,148,087	10.9–15.6 million	243,678	49,962	2.30	79.6
2035	projection	13,342,249	10.9–16.1 million	245,524	51,715	2.27	79.7
2036	projection	13,539,419	11.0–16.5 million	247,947	53,486	2.25	79.9
2037	projection	13,737,101	11.0–16.7 million	249,593	55,307	2.23	80.1
2038	projection	13,943,387	11.0–17.1 million	251,309	57,238	2.21	80.3
2039	projection	14,153,246	11.0–17.6 million	252,455	59,225	2.19	80.4
2040	projection	14,360,147	11.1–17.9 million	253,050	61,316	2.16	80.6
2041	projection	14,582,447	11.1–18.5 million	253,565	63,470	2.14	80.7
2042	projection	14,786,577	11.2–18.9 million	253,283	65,645	2.12	80.9
2043	projection	14,980,728	11.2–19.2 million	252,065	67,919	2.10	81.0
2044	projection	15,174,872	11.3–19.7 million	250,380	70,159	2.08	81.2
2045	projection	15,372,207	11.3–20.0 million	248,945	72,485	2.07	81.4
2046	projection	15,571,760	11.3–20.5 million	247,602	74,901	2.05	81.5
2047	projection	15,752,885	11.4–20.9 million	245,338	77,304	2.04	81.7
2048	projection	15,930,391	11.3–21.3 million	243,131	79,757	2.02	81.8
2049	projection	16,112,390	11.4–21.7 million	241,275	82,292	2.01	82.0
2050	projection	16,282,670	11.4–22.0 million	239,277	84,755	1.99	82.2
2051	projection	16,452,039	11.4–22.4 million	237,528	87,284	1.98	82.3
2052	projection	16,598,296	11.5–22.9 million	235,554	89,868	1.97	82.4
2053	projection	16,756,397	11.4–23.3 million	234,375	92,278	1.96	82.6
2054	projection	16,890,234	11.5–23.7 million	232,942	94,804	1.95	82.8
2055	projection	17,023,115	11.3–24.0 million	231,703	97,274	1.94	82.9
2056	projection	17,167,335	11.4–24.4 million	231,158	99,777	1.93	83.0
2057	projection	17,300,079	11.5–24.9 million	230,561	102,248	1.92	83.2
2058	projection	17,446,916	11.4–25.1 million	231,025	104,648	1.91	83.3
2059	projection	17,590,125	11.6–25.7 million	231,404	107,063	1.90	83.5
2060	projection	17,733,193	11.6–25.9 million	231,926	109,431	1.89	83.6
2061	projection	17,871,248	11.6–26.2 million	232,595	111,769	1.88	83.8
2062	projection	18,012,440	11.6–26.8 million	233,610	114,064	1.88	83.9
2063	projection	18,160,581	11.7–27.2 million	234,852	116,356	1.87	84.1
2064	projection	18,293,094	11.6–27.6 million	235,803	118,655	1.86	84.2
2065	projection	18,415,315	11.6–28.0 million	236,733	120,996	1.86	84.3
2066	projection	18,550,535	11.7–28.5 million	237,587	123,167	1.85	84.5
2067	projection	18,685,958	11.8–29.0 million	238,578	125,459	1.84	84.6
2068	projection	18,802,023	11.8–29.4 million	238,671	127,825	1.84	84.7
2069	projection	18,941,062	11.9–29.6 million	238,972	130,158	1.83	84.9
2070	projection	19,048,279	11.7–30.3 million	238,885	132,390	1.83	85.0
2071	projection	19,171,270	11.8–30.8 million	238,904	134,566	1.82	85.1
2072	projection	19,286,350	11.7–31.1 million	238,283	136,897	1.82	85.3
2073	projection	19,395,606	11.8–31.6 million	237,424	139,260	1.81	85.4
2074	projection	19,501,991	11.7–31.9 million	236,408	141,483	1.81	85.5
2075	projection	19,598,444	11.6–32.4 million	234,971	143,693	1.80	85.7
2076	projection	19,704,891	11.5–32.9 million	233,689	145,982	1.80	85.8
2077	projection	19,798,211	11.4–33.4 million	232,098	148,296	1.80	85.9
2078	projection	19,889,703	11.3–33.5 million	230,816	150,574	1.79	86.0
2079	projection	19,976,195	11.2–33.7 million	229,312	152,668	1.79	86.1
2080	projection	20,067,614	11.2–34.0 million	228,186	154,743	1.79	86.3
2081	projection	20,152,745	11.2–34.5 million	226,702	156,872	1.79	86.4
2082	projection	20,249,541	11.2–34.9 million	225,519	158,887	1.78	86.5
2083	projection	20,335,375	11.1–35.0 million	224,596	160,889	1.78	86.6
2084	projection	20,395,751	11.0–35.4 million	223,159	162,856	1.77	86.8
2085	projection	20,463,125	10.9–35.7 million	222,260	164,833	1.77	86.9
2086	projection	20,541,192	10.9–35.7 million	221,825	166,966	1.77	87.0
2087	projection	20,604,519	10.7–35.8 million	220,822	169,178	1.76	87.1
2088	projection	20,674,572	10.6–36.5 million	220,556	171,274	1.76	87.2
2089	projection	20,744,110	10.6–36.9 million	220,255	173,507	1.76	87.3
2090	projection	20,825,360	10.5–37.2 million	220,470	175,775	1.75	87.5
2091	projection	20,890,527	10.6–37.7 million	220,640	178,068	1.75	87.6
2092	projection	20,975,614	10.7–38.3 million	221,428	180,377	1.75	87.7
2093	projection	21,024,926	10.5–38.6 million	221,382	182,826	1.75	87.8
2094	projection	21,073,460	10.6–38.7 million	221,336	185,016	1.75	87.9
2095	projection	21,106,015	10.4–39.5 million	220,934	187,370	1.74	88.0
2096	projection	21,163,940	10.4–39.4 million	220,984	189,843	1.74	88.2
2097	projection	21,197,559	10.3–40.0 million	220,965	192,337	1.74	88.3
2098	projection	21,236,194	10.3–39.8 million	220,880	194,841	1.74	88.4
2099	projection	21,277,928	10.2–40.5 million	220,860	197,148	1.74	88.5
2100	projection	21,306,183	10.2–40.9 million	220,417	199,569	1.73	88.6

Show the numbers: Jordan, mid-2026, by single year of age

Jordan: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	113,568	108,614
1	113,912	109,146
2	114,034	109,288
3	113,996	109,224
4	114,241	109,459
5	114,726	109,902
6	115,240	110,381
7	115,787	110,904
8	116,299	111,380
9	116,816	111,848
10	117,366	112,336
11	120,681	115,410
12	122,473	117,120
13	121,910	116,774
14	121,723	118,238
15	122,310	120,684
16	121,648	120,947
17	119,127	119,308
18	117,940	118,312
19	112,688	112,792
20	107,298	106,896
21	104,913	103,912
22	102,181	101,402
23	98,695	97,514
24	94,322	92,950
25	92,442	91,386
26	90,048	88,430
27	88,170	86,078
28	91,044	87,292
29	94,932	88,754
30	97,306	89,406
31	98,126	88,774
32	98,190	87,332
33	97,132	85,257
34	95,014	82,574
35	92,063	79,312
36	89,464	76,750
37	87,918	75,568
38	86,220	74,634
39	83,785	73,315
40	81,108	71,742
41	78,458	70,085
42	76,256	68,544
43	74,416	67,060
44	72,074	65,153
45	69,777	63,182
46	67,833	61,336
47	66,170	59,676
48	64,548	58,110
49	62,508	56,256
50	60,905	54,650
51	59,848	53,416
52	58,986	52,368
53	58,171	51,335
54	56,740	49,853
55	54,861	48,128
56	52,822	46,317
57	50,833	44,538
58	48,632	42,710
59	45,804	40,590
60	42,998	38,520
61	40,374	36,465
62	37,709	34,370
63	34,926	32,292
64	31,897	29,996
65	29,021	27,684
66	26,471	25,539
67	24,269	23,731
68	22,272	22,117
69	20,195	20,300
70	18,272	18,550
71	16,562	17,008
72	15,262	15,692
73	14,221	14,454
74	12,862	13,137
75	11,346	11,872
76	10,157	10,877
77	9,293	10,177
78	8,255	9,286
79	7,152	8,285
80	6,182	7,391
81	5,332	6,602
82	4,578	5,884
83	3,899	5,219
84	3,290	4,603
85	2,744	4,028
86	2,250	3,480
87	1,800	2,945
88	1,397	2,428
89	1,048	1,940
90	758	1,500
91	528	1,126
92	358	829
93	234	601
94	147	425
95	88	292
96	51	194
97	28	124
98	14	76
99	8	45
100+	6	52

JOR · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Jordan, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

JOR · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Jordan

On the UN's projection, Jordan will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2096: 12,590,200 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 7,372,740.

100 aged 15–64

48 children

7 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 4 years: 2031–2034.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

JOR · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Jordan, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Jordan loses 66,589 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 12,327 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 2,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 635,528 (2014) and the most it lost was 146,181 (2012).

In 2024, 5,280,168 people living in Jordan had been born in another country, 46 of every 100 people there, against 31 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

JOR · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Jordan

Of every 100 babies born in Jordan in 2023, 4 had a mother under 20, 79 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 17 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 15 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
15 · 69 · 16

2023
4 · 79 · 17

2050 · projected
2 · 79 · 19

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 235,776
Average age when women have a baby: 29.8 years; 29.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 18; 135 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Jordan by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	141	54	30	42	39	30
15–19	2,895	8,711	9,505	10,179	5,115	3,013
20–24	5,321	21,324	39,164	48,034	35,944	25,137
25–29	5,505	23,220	46,143	77,177	76,650	69,568
30–34	3,324	16,767	36,040	60,876	76,078	79,428
35–39	2,297	13,721	19,632	31,189	37,353	36,095
40–44	778	3,987	5,349	7,792	7,748	6,757
45–49	194	909	629	484	349	388
50–54	9	39	22	3	1	1
All babies	20,464	88,732	156,514	235,776	239,277	220,417

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

JOR · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Jordan

Of the 75.7 years a baby born in Jordan in 2021 could expect, about 65.1 would be lived in full health (95% range 64.3–66.0). That leaves 10.6 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

64.5 in full health, 12.5 not: 77.0 years

Men

65.6 in full health, 9.0 not: 74.6 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 64.5 healthy years of 77.0. Men: 65.6 of 74.6. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 68.4.

JOR · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Jordan

At the end of 2025, Jordan was hosting 444,294 people who had crossed a border into it, about 39 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad444,294
Jordan nationals abroad16,207

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 10,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Jordan living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 3,827 people from Jordan asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Jordan whose claims were decided that year, 18 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

JOR · of every 100 people

How people live in Jordan

Of every 100 people in Jordan in 2025, 73 lived in a city, 21 in a town or suburb and 6 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 4.4 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

JOR · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Jordan went in school

Of every 100 adults in Jordan in 2020, 9 never went to school and 53 finished upper secondary or went further.

9 never went to school 9 some primary 16 finished primary 13 finished lower secondary 25 finished upper secondary 28 studied after school

Among women, 5.4 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 10.7 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 5.4 against 10.7.

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2070; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2075.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

JOR · cities · 2025

Cities in Jordan

Jordan had 15 cities in 2025, home to 8.4 million people. The largest, Amman, holds 56 of every 100 people in Jordan.

Amman6,403,666
Irbid792,470
Al Salt155,041
Madaba152,897
Ar Ramtha127,594
Aqaba116,458
Jerash114,256
Al Mafraq101,674
Der Abi Saeed82,773
Ajloun75,868

How to read this: the 10 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Jordan are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.