World population/Jordan
Asia
Population of Jordan
11,589,538
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#85
world rank
0.14%
of world population
+1.98%
yearly change
+229,925
people this year
222,912
births a year
37,661
deaths a year
How the figure for Jordan is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Jordan at 11,589,538 on 1 July 2026, and projects 11,819,463 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Jordan at number 85 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.14 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 222,912 births and 37,661 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.