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Population in Jordan compared to the Netherlands: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Jordan was 11,552,876 in 2024 vs 17,994,237 people in the Netherlands in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Jordan's population is 11,575,983 people compared to 18,191,638 in the Netherlands.

Population statistics:

  • The Netherlands' population is 1.57 times bigger than Jordan's.
  • Jordan is ranked the 85th most populous country in the world, while the Netherlands is the 72nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.36% of the world: 0.14% for Jordan vs 0.22% for the Netherlands.
  • For the last 10 years, Jordan has had an average growth rate of +3.45% per year vs +0.62% in the Netherlands.
  • Since 2005, the population of Jordan has increased from 6.03M people to 11.6M (92% growth), while the Netherlands has grown from 16.3M to 18.2M (11.5% growth).
  • Jordan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 21.3M people compared to the peak of 18.8M people in 2041 for the Netherlands.

Jordan vs Netherlands: live population counter

Jordan Netherlands
Current population
11575983
18191638
Population rank 85/197 72/197
Percent of world population 0.14% 0.22%
One net population change
4.62 minutes
4.49 minutes
One birth every
2.23 minutes
3.2 minutes
One death every
15.1 minutes
3.09 minutes
One migration net change every
3.36 minutes
4.32 minutes
Annual migration change -156,369 +121,628
Daily growth/decline +311 +321
Annual growth/decline +113,663 +117,120
Annual growth/decline rate +0.99% +0.66%
Population growth rate rank 103/197 122/197

Jordan and the Netherlands: population history and growth rate by year chart

Jordan
Population

Growth rate
Netherlands
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Jordan Netherlands Jordan Netherlands
1960 853,471 11,486,631 - -
1961 897,591 11,638,712 5.17% 1.32%
1962 940,554 11,805,689 4.79% 1.43%
1963 984,714 11,965,966 4.7% 1.36%
1964 1,035,640 12,127,120 5.17% 1.35%
1965 1,099,440 12,294,732 6.16% 1.38%
1966 1,178,360 12,456,251 7.18% 1.31%
1967 1,271,183 12,598,201 7.88% 1.14%
1968 1,372,460 12,729,721 7.97% 1.04%
1969 1,473,100 12,877,984 7.33% 1.16%
1970 1,565,163 13,038,526 6.25% 1.25%
1971 1,645,145 13,194,497 5.11% 1.2%
1972 1,714,555 13,328,593 4.22% 1.02%
1973 1,778,094 13,439,322 3.71% 0.83%
1974 1,839,182 13,545,056 3.44% 0.79%
1975 1,899,055 13,666,335 3.26% 0.9%
1976 1,958,177 13,774,037 3.11% 0.79%
1977 2,019,002 13,856,185 3.11% 0.6%
1978 2,083,595 13,941,700 3.2% 0.62%
1979 2,153,882 14,038,270 3.37% 0.69%
1980 2,234,186 14,149,800 3.73% 0.79%
1981 2,325,517 14,247,208 4.09% 0.69%
1982 2,426,927 14,312,690 4.36% 0.46%
1983 2,537,307 14,367,070 4.55% 0.38%
1984 2,654,688 14,424,211 4.63% 0.4%
1985 2,778,810 14,491,632 4.68% 0.47%
1986 2,909,887 14,572,278 4.72% 0.56%
1987 3,047,634 14,665,037 4.73% 0.64%
1988 3,193,039 14,760,094 4.77% 0.65%
1989 3,349,627 14,848,907 4.9% 0.6%
1990 3,621,908 14,951,510 8.13% 0.69%
1991 3,915,149 15,069,798 8.1% 0.79%
1992 4,127,693 15,184,166 5.43% 0.76%
1993 4,348,020 15,290,368 5.34% 0.7%
1994 4,561,406 15,382,838 4.91% 0.6%
1995 4,752,096 15,459,006 4.18% 0.5%
1996 4,912,516 15,530,498 3.38% 0.46%
1997 5,046,285 15,610,650 2.72% 0.52%
1998 5,164,284 15,707,209 2.34% 0.62%
1999 5,276,444 15,812,088 2.17% 0.67%
2000 5,386,945 15,925,513 2.09% 0.72%
2001 5,498,894 16,046,180 2.08% 0.76%
2002 5,616,066 16,148,929 2.13% 0.64%
2003 5,741,828 16,225,302 2.24% 0.47%
2004 5,882,061 16,281,779 2.44% 0.35%
2005 6,029,587 16,319,868 2.51% 0.23%
2006 6,427,371 16,346,101 6.6% 0.16%
2007 6,827,227 16,381,696 6.22% 0.22%
2008 6,989,866 16,445,593 2.38% 0.39%
2009 7,141,753 16,530,388 2.17% 0.52%
2010 7,297,043 16,615,394 2.17% 0.51%
2011 7,480,424 16,693,074 2.51% 0.47%
2012 7,587,127 16,754,962 1.43% 0.37%
2013 7,991,809 16,804,432 5.33% 0.3%
2014 8,791,710 16,865,008 10% 0.36%
2015 9,544,729 16,939,923 8.57% 0.44%
2016 10,006,367 17,030,314 4.84% 0.53%
2017 10,234,226 17,131,296 2.28% 0.59%
2018 10,462,306 17,231,624 2.23% 0.59%
2019 10,671,891 17,344,874 2% 0.66%
2020 10,865,228 17,441,500 1.81% 0.56%
2021 11,066,356 17,533,044 1.85% 0.52%
2022 11,256,263 17,700,982 1.72% 0.96%
2023 11,439,213 17,877,117 1.63% 1%
2024 11,552,876 17,994,237 0.99% 0.66%
2025 11,520,678 18,110,800 -0.28% 0.65%
2026 11,589,528 18,211,436 0.6% 0.56%
2027 11,819,454 18,299,531 1.98% 0.48%
2028 12,034,459 18,379,573 1.82% 0.44%
2029 12,245,726 18,452,044 1.76% 0.39%
2030 12,448,772 18,515,913 1.66% 0.35%
2031 12,652,545 18,571,934 1.64% 0.3%
2032 12,854,926 18,621,087 1.6% 0.26%
2033 13,050,713 18,664,975 1.52% 0.24%
2034 13,245,158 18,702,456 1.49% 0.2%
2035 13,440,821 18,733,223 1.48% 0.16%
2036 13,638,248 18,760,054 1.47% 0.14%
2037 13,840,237 18,781,793 1.48% 0.12%
2038 14,048,303 18,798,283 1.5% 0.09%
2039 14,256,684 18,810,276 1.48% 0.06%
2040 14,471,288 18,817,745 1.51% 0.04%
2041 14,684,501 18,820,870 1.47% 0.02%
2042 14,883,641 18,819,607 1.36% -0.007%
2043 15,077,789 18,815,261 1.3% -0.02%
2044 15,273,526 18,807,564 1.3% -0.04%
2045 15,471,971 18,797,005 1.3% -0.06%
2046 15,662,312 18,785,724 1.23% -0.06%
2047 15,841,619 18,771,651 1.14% -0.07%
2048 16,021,374 18,754,325 1.13% -0.09%
2049 16,197,518 18,735,299 1.1% -0.1%
2050 16,367,341 18,714,579 1.05% -0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Jordan increased by 3,515,142 people (a 58.3% growth), while the Netherlands gained 620,055 people (a 3.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Jordan gained 2,031,254 (a 21.3% growth), while the Netherlands' population increased by 1,251,715 (a 7.39% growth).

Jordan was ranked 101st most populous country in 2005 and is 85th in 2025. The Netherlands was ranked 61st in 2005 and ranked 72nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Jordan's population will grow by 41.4% to 16,367,341 people with a rank change from 85th to 79th. The population of the Netherlands will increase by 2.87% to 18,714,579 people and rank change from 72nd to 77th.

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