Jordan: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 439,000 people, so the population is now 26.4 times as large.

The UN projects 223,000 births and 37,700 deaths in 2026, 185,000 more births than deaths.

More people move in than leave: net migration in 2026 is projected at plus 60,700.

The median age is 24.9, which is 6.2 years below the world’s 31.1.

30% of the people are under 15 and 4.9% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

The UN projects that people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under 15 from 2074.

Women have 2.5 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 7.4 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 78.3 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 40.9.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 16.4 million people, 41% more than now, with a median age of 32.3.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 77.8 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 19.0 more years for women and 15.7 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 7.5 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 18.3.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 21.3 million, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 10.1 million to 41.1 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 5.28 million international migrants lived here, 45.7% of the population.

In mid-2024, 659,000 people from here lived in other countries.