Jordan 
Facts
Population: 6,053,193 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 33% (male 1,018,934/female 977,645)
15-64 years: 63% (male 2,037,550/female 1,777,361)
65 years and over: 4% (male 117,279/female 124,424) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.412% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 20.69 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 2.68 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 6.11 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.042 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.146 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.943 male(s)/female
total population: 1.102 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 16.16 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 19.33 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 12.81 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78.55 years
male: 76.04 years
female: 81.22 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.55 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 600 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.).
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 and Roman Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Protestant denominations), other 2% (several small Shi'a Muslim and Druze populations) (2001 est.).
Languages: Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and middle classes.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 89.9%
male: 95.1%
female: 84.7% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $30 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 6.3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $5,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.6%
industry: 30.5%
services: 65.9% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 1.512 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 5%
industry: 12.5%
services: 82.5% (2001 est.).
Population below poverty line: 30% (2001 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.3%
highest 10%: 29.8% (1997).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 15.4% official rate; unofficial rate is approximately 30% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $4.88 billion
expenditures: $5.51 billion; including capital expenditures of $1.092 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: citrus, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives; sheep, poultry, stone fruits, strawberries, dairy.
Industries: clothing, phosphate mining, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, petroleum refining, cement, potash, inorganic chemicals, light manufacturing, tourism.
Industrial production growth rate: 4.6% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 8.431 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 8.387 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 4 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 550 million kWh (2004).
Exports: $4.798 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: clothing, pharmaceuticals, potash, phosphates, fertilizers, vegetables, manufactures.
Exports - partners: US 26.2%, Iraq 17.1%, India 8.1%, Saudi Arabia 5.9%, Syria 4.7% (2005).
Imports: $10.42 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: crude oil, textile fabrics, machinery, transport equipment, manufactured goods.
Imports - partners: Saudi Arabia 23.6%, China 9.2%, Germany 8%, US 5.6% (2005).
Debt - external: $7.3 billion (31 September 2006).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $752 million (2005 est.).
Currency (code): Jordanian dinar (JOD).
Exchange rates: Jordanian dinars per US dollar - 0.709 (2006), 0.709 (2005), 0.709 (2004), 0.709 (2003), 0.709 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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