Khaberni - The population of Jordan exceeded 12 million on Thursday, according to the official population clock released by the Department of Statistics, about four and a half years after the population reached 11 million on October 1, 2021.
This comes as the government nears completing the 2026 General Census of Population and Housing, in compliance with the General Statistics Law which mandates its execution every ten years.
The Director General of the Department of Statistics, Haider Freihat, said this month that the current number of households in Jordan is estimated at about 2.5 million, spread across 12 governorates, noting that the statistical counting unit adopted by the department is the statistical block, as the kingdom has been divided into 24,000 statistical blocks.
The department completed the first phase of the census which involved central updating, followed by the bundling phase, while currently, the third phase, the enumeration phase, is underway. Freihat pointed out that the completion rate in the enumeration phase has currently reached about 15%, and it is expected to finish by the end of June.
He explained that for the first time in Jordan's history, a "self-counting" experiment will be conducted, where about a quarter of the kingdom's population has been chosen to participate, allowing willing households to fill out their data themselves without needing a visit from a statistical researcher, through an electronic form accessed via a QR code, with the data filling to be done inside the home.
Freihat mentioned that the final count will provide comprehensive and updated data about the population number and their distribution by governorates, population growth rates, population movement, and the size and characteristics of households, in addition to numbers and percentages of people with disabilities, among other indicators needed by the state, planners, researchers, and universities.
