Jordan
Capital: Amman · Lower middle income · Pop. 11.6 million
Source: World Bank Open Data (WHO/UNICEF JMP & FAO AQUASTAT) · drinking water 2024
In Jordan, 88.95% of the population uses safely managed drinking water — an improved source, located on premises, available when needed, and free from contamination (2024 estimate). That leaves roughly 1.3 million people without safely managed drinking water at home.
Sanitation tracks closely: 80.08% use safely managed sanitation services and 96.41% have at least a basic service (2024).
Jordan has about 61 cubic meters of renewable internal freshwater per person each year — below the ~1,000 m³ threshold widely used to define water scarcity. It withdraws the equivalent of 139% of those internal resources annually (extreme (over-extraction) water stress), meaning it relies on rivers from outside its borders, desalination, or drawing down stored reserves.
Agriculture accounts for about 52% of Jordan's water withdrawals, the rest going to households and industry.
Common questions
How many people in Jordan have safe drinking water?
88.95% of Jordan's population uses safely managed drinking water (2024), per WHO/UNICEF data; about 1.3 million people do not.
Does Jordan have enough freshwater?
Jordan has roughly 61 m³ of renewable internal freshwater per person per year, and uses about 139% of it annually (extreme (over-extraction) stress).