Demographics of Jordan
Jordan has a population of more than 11.1 million inhabitants as of 2023. Jordanians (Arabic: أردنيون) are the citizens of Jordan. Around 94% of Jordanians are Arabs, while the remaining 6% belong to other ethnic minorities, including Circassians, Chechens, Armenians and Kurds. Around 2.9 million inhabitants are non-citizens, a figure including refugees, legal and illegal immigrants. 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.
| 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 | 2.7 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 | Jordanians |
| Major ethnic | Arabs |
| Minor ethnic | Armenians, Chechens, Circassians, Kurds |
| Language | |
| Official | Modern Standard Arabic |
| Spoken | Jordanian Arabic, English |
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. Many Jordanians and people of Jordanian descent live across the world, mainly in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, United States, Canada and Turkey.
In 2016, Jordan was named as the largest refugee hosting country per capita in the world, followed by Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon. 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.