Jordan
Jordan at Glance
Basic Information
Capital: Amman
Total Area: 89,342 sq km
Language: Arabic (official), English (widely understood among upper and middle classes)
Population: 10,458,413
Currency: Jordanian Dinar
Statistics
Youth Sociaty %
Basic Education %
Women Existence %
Economic profile
GDP: $89 billion
GDP – Per capita: $9,200
Real Growth Rate: 2%
Inflation Rate: 3.3%
Unemployment Rate: 18.3%
Industrial Production Growth Rate: 1.4%
Taxes and other revenues: 23.6%
Trade Balance:
Exports: $7.511 billion
Imports: $18.21 billion
Budget:
Revenues: 9.462 billion
Expenditures: 11.51 billion
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $33.83 billion
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $646.5 million
Major Exports: textiles, fertilizers, potash, phosphates, vegetables, pharmaceuticals
Major Imports: crude oil, refined petroleum products, machinery, transport equipment, iron, cereals
Trade partners: US, Saudi Arabia, India, Iraq, Kuwait, China, UAE, Germany
Natural Resources: phosphates, potash, shale oil
Agriculture Products: citrus, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, strawberries; sheep, poultry, dairy
Major Industries: tourism, information technology, clothing, fertilizer, potash, phosphate mining, pharmaceuticals, petroleum refining, cement, inorganic chemicals, light manufacturing
Labor force: 2.295 million distributed as follows:
Services: 2%
Industry: 20%
Agriculture: 78%
External Trade for Jordan (JOD)
|
Imports |
Exports |
Year |
|
14,553,719,900 |
4,504,224,000 |
2017 |
|
14,353,249,100 |
4,668,425,100 |
2018 |
| 13,729,095,700 |
4,992,077,500 |
2019 |
Source: Department of Statistics.
Cooperation Agreements between Jordan and other countries
Energy
Electrification - total population: 100%
Electricity - production: 18.6 billion kWh
Electricity - consumption: 16.82 billion kWh
Electricity - exports: 50 million kWh
Electricity - imports: 334 million kWh
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 4.764 million kW
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 12% of total installed capacity
Crude oil - production: 22 bbl/day
Crude oil - imports: 67,980 bbl/day
Natural gas - production: 121.8 million cu m
Natural gas - consumption: 5.238 billion cu m
Natural gas - exports: 1.359 billion cu m
Natural gas - imports: 6.456 billion cu m
Communications:
Internet users: total: 5,099,674
Percent of population: 62.3%
Country comparison to the world: 75
Broadband - fixed subscriptions: total: 456,610
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 4
Country comparison to the world: 82
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