Environment - current issues: limited natural fresh water resources; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
strategic location at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and as the Arab
country that shares the longest border with Israel and the occupied
West Bank
People Jordan
Population:
5,759,732 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 34.5% (male 1,015,084/female 973,220)
15-64 years: 61.7% (male 1,897,643/female 1,656,570)
65 years and over: 3.8% (male 106,168/female 111,047) (2005 est.)
Median age:
total: 22.62 years
male: 23.25 years
female: 21.94 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.56% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
21.76 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
2.63 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)