Jordan

Capital city — Amman

Country population
10,101,694
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2019
/ World Bank
Type of government
Constitutional Monarchy
Human Development Index
0.729
(102/188)
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2019
/ PNUD, Rapport sur le développement humain
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
1.4
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2017
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris1
Ministry of the Interior, Public Securi1
Total number of prisoners
20,060
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12/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit1
198
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12/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Prison density
150 %
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12/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
17
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2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
no
Number and percentage of female prisone1
2.2 %
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12/2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Untried prisoners
36.9 %
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2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
no
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PdM

Year2021

2.2 % (441)

12/2019

36.9 % (7,409)

2019