AMMAN – As of the end of 2023, the current
population size is approximately 11.5 million people, with at least one-third
of them not holding Jordanian citizenship. Six million people have been added
to the current population size over the last 19 years.
اضافة اعلان
As reported by Khaberni, the results of the
2015
General Population and Housing Census indicated that the number of
non-Jordanian residents in the Kingdom reached 2.92 million people, with 1.68
million males compared to 1.24 million females. Syrian, Egyptian, Palestinian,
Iraqi, Yemeni, and Libyan nationalities constituted 93.2 percent of the
non-Jordanian residents in Jordan.
Syrians comprised the largest percentage of
non-Jordanians residing in Jordan at 43.4 percent, followed by Egyptians at
21.8 percent, and Palestinians at 21.7 percent. The remaining percentage, 13.1
percent, included other Arab and foreign nationals.
Census data shows that the percentage of
non-Jordanians residing in Jordan increased from 4.2 percent of the total
population in 1979 to 7.7 percent in 2004 and further to 30.6 percent of the
total population in 2015.
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