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Everything Palanor holds about Jordan, in one place: 127 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.

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Country Posture

What Jordan’s economy is doing

Momentum

2025

Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).

Inputs
Real GDP growth2.8
Growth against its three-year average0.0
Change in unemployment-0.2
Change in the employment rate0.1
Export volume growth—
OECD leading indicator—

Resilience

2024

44Moderate buffers

0 = thin buffers · 100 = deep buffers

Moved most by governance (wgi mean) (up) and current account (down) since the year before.

Inputs
Interest as a share of revenue (2023)18.68
Budget balance (2023)-4.728
Reserves, months of imports7.880
Current account-5.338
Governance (WGI mean)-0.0472
External debt90.126

Pressure

2025

Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).

Inputs
Inflation1.8
Change in inflation0.2
Currency move against the dollar0.0%
Conflict deaths per million0.0
Political stability-0.32
Private credit, three-year change-5.4
Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries—

Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.

Country Schemas

Where Jordan is in its cycles

Where Jordan sits in eight long cycles, each read from published statistics against a method fixed before any reading was computed. A stage describes; it is not a rating, and no stage is better or worse than another.

  • Development stage

    Drive to maturity84% · 2025

    Pre-take-offTake-offDrive to maturityHigh mass consumption

    20002025

  • Demographic stage

    Late expanding100% · 2025

    High stationaryEarly expandingLate expandingLow stationaryDeclining

    20002025

  • Debt cycle stage

    Late cycle66% · 2025

    Early cycleLeveragingLate cycleDeleveraging

    20002025

  • External balance stage

    Mature debtor66% · 2025

    Immature debtorMature debtorDebt repayerImmature creditorMature creditorCredit disinvestor

    20002025

  • Export structure stage

    Manufacturing exporter72% · 2025

    Commodity-reliantDiversifyingManufacturing exporterComplex exporter

    20002025

  • Structural pressure

    High88% · 2025

    LowBuildingHighAcute

    20002025

  • Pre-middle-classEmerging middle classMiddle-class majorityAffluent

    20002025

    Withheld: too little of its evidence is published and fresh.

  • Electoral cycle

    Mid-term99% · 2026-10

    Post-electionMid-termPre-election

    2020-122026-10

All Country Schemas · How they work

Passport reach

Where a Jordan passport opens doors

The share of world GDP, outside Jordan itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.

Visit

4.7%

rank 127 of 199 · +2.2 pts in a year

short stays without a visa arranged in advance; 3 destinations in full.

Work

13.0%

rank 67 of 199

the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 0 destinations in full, 1 at half.

Live

0.0%

rank 51 of 199

a right to reside by nationality; 0 destinations in full.

Recorded changes

  • 2025-12-13Russia · visit: E-visa before travel → Visa-free source
  • 2025-04-05Russia · visit: Visa required → E-visa before travel source
  • 2024-09-10United Kingdom · visit: Online travel authorisation → Visa required source
  • 2024-02-22United Kingdom · visit: Visa required → Online travel authorisation source

Jordan grants citizenship for a set investment

  • Jordanian Citizenship by Investment (Cabinet criteria for granting residency and citizenship to investors, amended July 2026) citizenship · OpenGovernment minimum $705,219 for one person (agent fees excluded).

Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.

What a Jordan passport opensShare of world GDP outside the holder's own country in the recorded destinations open to the passport: to visit, to work, to live. Monthly, rules in force on the first of the monthVisit: 4.7% in Oct 2026 · Oct 2026
Source: Palanor calculation from destination governments’ published visa and residence rules; GDP weights: World Bank (CC BY 4.0)Open the chart →

Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.

IMF World Economic Outlook

The IMF’s outlook for Jordan

The latest year before the October 2026 edition (often still an IMF estimate) and the IMF’s own projections. These are the IMF’s published forecasts, shown as published; Palanor does not project them further. Since the previous edition the IMF cut its growth forecast for this year by 0.0 percentage points (Palanor calculation).

Measure20252026 IMF f’cast2027 IMF f’cast2031 IMF f’cast
Real GDP growth%2.82.73.13.0
Inflation, average consumer prices%1.82.52.32.2
GDP, current US dollarsUS$ bn61.764.968.584.9
GDP at purchasing-power parityintl $ bn145.5154.5164.3199.6
GDP per person, US dollarsUS$5,1695,5985,7966,708
Current account balance% of GDP-5.7-7.5-5.7-4.4
Government gross debt% of GDP83.682.581.475.7
Government overall balance% of GDP-6.2-6.1-5.3-4.4
Government primary balance% of GDP-0.6-0.50.50.9
Government net interest paid% of GDP · Palanor calc.5.65.75.85.3
Jordan: growth, and the IMF's outlookReal GDP growth, percent a year, IMF history and projectionReal GDP growth: 2.8% in 2025 · 2025
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026Open the chart →

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.

Jordan: government debt, and the IMF's outlookGeneral government gross debt, % of GDP, IMF history and projectionGross debt: 84% in 2025 · 2025
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026Open the chart →

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026. Provided by the IMF “as is” and free of charge from the IMF; the IMF does not endorse Palanor. Net interest paid is a Palanor calculation: the IMF's primary balance minus its overall balance.

Charts

The headline series

Jordan: growth and inflationReal GDP growth and consumer price inflation, percent a yearReal GDP growth: 2.8% in 2025 · 2025
Source: The World BankOpen the chart →
Jordan: Country StrengthPalanor composite of growth, prosperity, public finances, prices, currency, external balance, governance and human development, 0 to 10048.8 in 2025 · 2025
Source: Palanor calculationOpen the chart →

Conflict

Organized violence

Organized-violence deaths in JordanDeaths each year from state-based, non-state and one-sided violence, UCDP best estimate0 in 2025 · 2025
Source: Uppsala UniversityOpen the chart →

Company graph

Companies headquartered in Jordan

Palanor’s company graph holds 3 entities headquartered here (GLEIF headquarters address, else legal address).

Signals

Every series about Jordan

Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 127 in the Library.

Growth and output8 of 27

Prices1 of 3

Jobs and people at work3 of 4

Money, rates and credit1 of 2

Government and debt8

Trade and capital flows2 of 3

Energy and resources1 of 5

Conflict and geopolitics6 of 12

Migration3 of 5

AI stance and technology1 of 2

Climate and the physical world4 of 6

Health and living standards8

More about this country2 of 16

Peers

Elsewhere in Asia

Alphabetical. Palanor does not rank countries.

AfghanistanArmeniaAzerbaijanBahrainBangladeshBhutanBruneiCambodiaChinaCyprusGeorgiaHong KongIndiaIndonesiaIranIraqIsraelJapanKazakhstanKuwaitKyrgyzstanLaosLebanonMacaoMalaysiaMaldivesMongoliaMyanmarNepalNorth KoreaOmanPakistanPalestinePhilippinesQatarSaudi ArabiaSingaporeSouth KoreaSri LankaSyriaTaiwanTajikistanThailandTimor-LesteTürkiyeTurkmenistanUnited Arab EmiratesUzbekistanVietnamYemen

Built 2026-10-22 from Palanor’s stored readings. Sources include the World Bank (WDI, WGI; CC BY 4.0), the OECD, UCDP (CC BY 4.0), national statistics offices and central banks, each credited on its signal, and the IMF World Economic Outlook Database (October 2026). Market prices are available inside the Terminal.

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