ACOG - Jordan  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle East, northwest of Saudi Arabia

Area:
total area: 89,213 sq km
land area: 88,884 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Indiana

Land boundaries: total 1,619 km, Iraq 181 km, Israel 238 km, Saudi Arabia 728 km, Syria375 km, West Bank 97 km

Coastline: 26 km


People

Population: 4,100,709 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 44% (female 884,462; male 930,266)
15-64 years: 53% (female 1,058,060; male 1,119,347)
65 years and over: 3% (female 53,709; male 54,865)

Population growth rate: 2.69% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 37.32 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 4.02 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -6.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 32.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.27 years
male: 70.43 years
female: 74.21 years

Total fertility rate: 5.25 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Arab 98%, Circassian 1%, Armenian 1%

Religions: Sunni Muslim 92%, Christian 8%

Languages: Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and middleclasses

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 83%
male: 91%
female: 75%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
conventional short form: Jordan

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Amman

Independence: 25 May 1946 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration)

Constitution: 8 January 1952


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $17 billion

National product real growth rate: 5.5%

National product per capita: $4,280

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6%

Unemployment rate: 16%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,050,000 kW
production: 4.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,072 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).