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Population in Jordan compared to Romania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Jordan was 11,552,876 in 2024 vs 19,069,340 people in Romania in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Jordan's population is 11,575,983 people compared to 18,962,595 in Romania.

Population statistics:

  • Romania's population is 1.64 times bigger than Jordan's.
  • Jordan is ranked the 85th most populous country in the world, while Romania is the 69th.
  • The countries together account for 0.37% of the world: 0.14% for Jordan vs 0.23% for Romania.
  • For the last 10 years, Jordan has had an average growth rate of +3.45% per year vs -0.42% in Romania.
  • Since 2005, the population of Jordan has increased from 6.03M people to 11.6M (92% growth), while Romania has declined from 21.3M to 19M (11.1% decline).
  • Jordan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 21.3M people, while Romania's population already peaked in 1990 at 23.2M people and is projected to decrease to 10.8M people by 2100.

Jordan vs Romania: live population counter

Jordan Romania
Current population
11575983
18962595
Population rank 85/197 69/197
Percent of world population 0.14% 0.23%
One net population change
4.62 minutes
53.3 minutes
One birth every
2.23 minutes
3.45 minutes
One death every
15.1 minutes
2.17 minutes
One migration net change every
3.36 minutes
18.5 minutes
Annual migration change -156,369 -28,466
Daily growth/decline +311 +27
Annual growth/decline +113,663 +9,861
Annual growth/decline rate +0.99% +0.05%
Population growth rate rank 103/197 162/197

Jordan and Romania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Jordan
Population

Growth rate
Romania
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Jordan Romania Jordan Romania
1960 853,471 18,406,905 - -
1961 897,591 18,555,250 5.17% 0.81%
1962 940,554 18,676,550 4.79% 0.65%
1963 984,714 18,797,850 4.7% 0.65%
1964 1,035,640 18,919,126 5.17% 0.65%
1965 1,099,440 19,031,576 6.16% 0.59%
1966 1,178,360 19,215,450 7.18% 0.97%
1967 1,271,183 19,534,242 7.88% 1.66%
1968 1,372,460 19,799,831 7.97% 1.36%
1969 1,473,100 20,009,141 7.33% 1.06%
1970 1,565,163 20,250,398 6.25% 1.21%
1971 1,645,145 20,461,567 5.11% 1.04%
1972 1,714,555 20,657,957 4.22% 0.96%
1973 1,778,094 20,835,681 3.71% 0.86%
1974 1,839,182 21,029,429 3.44% 0.93%
1975 1,899,055 21,293,583 3.26% 1.26%
1976 1,958,177 21,551,634 3.11% 1.21%
1977 2,019,002 21,756,096 3.11% 0.95%
1978 2,083,595 21,951,464 3.2% 0.9%
1979 2,153,882 22,090,488 3.37% 0.63%
1980 2,234,186 22,207,282 3.73% 0.53%
1981 2,325,517 22,353,070 4.09% 0.66%
1982 2,426,927 22,475,741 4.36% 0.55%
1983 2,537,307 22,560,478 4.55% 0.38%
1984 2,654,688 22,640,547 4.63% 0.35%
1985 2,778,810 22,732,999 4.68% 0.41%
1986 2,909,887 22,836,841 4.72% 0.46%
1987 3,047,634 22,949,430 4.73% 0.49%
1988 3,193,039 23,057,662 4.77% 0.47%
1989 3,349,627 23,161,458 4.9% 0.45%
1990 3,621,908 23,201,835 8.13% 0.17%
1991 3,915,149 23,001,155 8.1% -0.86%
1992 4,127,693 22,794,284 5.43% -0.9%
1993 4,348,020 22,763,280 5.34% -0.14%
1994 4,561,406 22,730,211 4.91% -0.15%
1995 4,752,096 22,684,270 4.18% -0.2%
1996 4,912,516 22,619,004 3.38% -0.29%
1997 5,046,285 22,553,978 2.72% -0.29%
1998 5,164,284 22,507,344 2.34% -0.21%
1999 5,276,444 22,472,040 2.17% -0.16%
2000 5,386,945 22,442,971 2.09% -0.13%
2001 5,498,894 22,131,970 2.08% -1.39%
2002 5,616,066 21,730,496 2.13% -1.81%
2003 5,741,828 21,574,326 2.24% -0.72%
2004 5,882,061 21,451,748 2.44% -0.57%
2005 6,029,587 21,319,685 2.51% -0.62%
2006 6,427,371 21,193,760 6.6% -0.59%
2007 6,827,227 20,882,982 6.22% -1.47%
2008 6,989,866 20,537,875 2.38% -1.65%
2009 7,141,753 20,367,487 2.17% -0.83%
2010 7,297,043 20,246,871 2.17% -0.59%
2011 7,480,424 20,147,528 2.51% -0.49%
2012 7,587,127 20,058,035 1.43% -0.44%
2013 7,991,809 19,983,693 5.33% -0.37%
2014 8,791,710 19,908,979 10% -0.37%
2015 9,544,729 19,815,616 8.57% -0.47%
2016 10,006,367 19,702,267 4.84% -0.57%
2017 10,234,226 19,588,715 2.28% -0.58%
2018 10,462,306 19,473,970 2.23% -0.59%
2019 10,671,891 19,371,648 2% -0.53%
2020 10,865,228 19,265,250 1.81% -0.55%
2021 11,066,356 19,122,059 1.85% -0.74%
2022 11,256,263 19,048,502 1.72% -0.38%
2023 11,439,213 19,059,479 1.63% 0.06%
2024 11,552,876 19,069,340 0.99% 0.05%
2025 11,520,678 18,962,595 -0.28% -0.56%
2026 11,589,528 18,854,232 0.6% -0.57%
2027 11,819,454 18,744,883 1.98% -0.58%
2028 12,034,459 18,634,894 1.82% -0.59%
2029 12,245,726 18,523,736 1.76% -0.6%
2030 12,448,772 18,411,878 1.66% -0.6%
2031 12,652,545 18,299,820 1.64% -0.61%
2032 12,854,926 18,187,406 1.6% -0.61%
2033 13,050,713 18,074,282 1.52% -0.62%
2034 13,245,158 17,960,330 1.49% -0.63%
2035 13,440,821 17,845,182 1.48% -0.64%
2036 13,638,248 17,728,480 1.47% -0.65%
2037 13,840,237 17,611,384 1.48% -0.66%
2038 14,048,303 17,493,684 1.5% -0.67%
2039 14,256,684 17,375,991 1.48% -0.67%
2040 14,471,288 17,258,810 1.51% -0.67%
2041 14,684,501 17,140,535 1.47% -0.69%
2042 14,883,641 17,022,168 1.36% -0.69%
2043 15,077,789 16,904,427 1.3% -0.69%
2044 15,273,526 16,786,029 1.3% -0.7%
2045 15,471,971 16,667,734 1.3% -0.7%
2046 15,662,312 16,550,066 1.23% -0.71%
2047 15,841,619 16,431,566 1.14% -0.72%
2048 16,021,374 16,312,099 1.13% -0.73%
2049 16,197,518 16,192,424 1.1% -0.73%
2050 16,367,341 16,072,989 1.05% -0.74%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Jordan increased by 3,515,142 people (a 58.3% growth), while Romania lost 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Jordan gained 2,031,254 (a 21.3% growth), while Romania's population decreased by -853,021 (a 4.3% decline).

Jordan was ranked 101st most populous country in 2005 and is 85th in 2025. Romania was ranked 50th in 2005 and ranked 69th 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 Romania will decrease by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people and rank change from 69th to 81st.

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