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Public health and Covid-19 in Jordan

Healthcare in Jordan

Healthcare in Jordan is slightly above average in a global comparison.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Jordan is 73.0 years for men and 77.8 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 3.0 years lower (men: 69.8 / women: 74.9 years).

A total of 334.04 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 7.6 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,115.01 USD (~ 9.8% of the respective GDP).


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Spread of COVID-19 in Jordan

Since the beginning of the pandemic until March 22nd, 2023, a total of 1,746,997 infected people and 14,122 deaths have been reported in Jordan.

The total of 1,746,997 infected people currently represents 17.12 percent of the total population.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 10.06 million vaccine doses have been administered as of August 21st, 2022. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 4.82 million people who have received at least one vaccination (47.3 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 682,211 people (6.7 percent).

4.56 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Jordan (= 44.7 percent).
Thus, Jordan belongrather to the lower midfield in terms of vaccination coverage. The vaccination rate is higher in 158 countries.

Weight and size

MaleFemale
Body height174 cm159 cm
BMI28.330.0
Weight85.3 kg75.9 kg

Diseases

JordanØ worldwide
Diabetes *12.70%8.81%
Tuberculosis0.04‰1.34‰
HIV / Aids0.00%0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.


Child vaccinations

JordanØ worldwide
Measles76.0%81.7%
Hepatitis B0.08%0.08%
Tetanus9.2%0.0%
DTP *7.70%8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

In Jordan, 34.8 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.
The number of underweight newborns is 14 percent.

Medical supplies

Public health and Covid-19 in JordanMedical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Jordan is below average compared to the world population. The country provides 1.5 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about 26,100 physicians in Jordan, there are about 2.34 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Due to the low level of care, the mortality of major known diseases can only be reduced in comparatively few cases. According to current information, about 15 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) still die.

Drinking water supply

Explanation of the graph:
Red line: access to water supply via wells or delivered drinking water
Green bars: Permanent access to running and tested drinking water connection


About 86 percent of the population has access to an immediately available, running drinking water supply. At least via springs and wells within a maximum distance of 30 minutes or supplied water, 99 peprcent of the population is supplied with largely clean drinking water. The population is thus better served than average. In a global comparison, only about 74 percent of the population has direct access to tested and always available drinking water. Within the European Union, this share is 98 percent. Only in a few countries does the proportion fall below 10 percent.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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