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Iraq vs Jordan

117 shared metrics.

IraqLeads in 65

vs117 shared

JordanLeads in 52

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What matters for both sides

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Iraq

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Republic of Iraq.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Southern Iraq's Ahwar is one of the world's largest inland delta systems in a hot, arid environment.

UNESCO

Jordan

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Jordan touches the Dead Sea, where the surface sits nearly 400 m below sea level.

NASA

Analysis

Iraq leads in 65 of 117 shared metrics, while Jordan leads in 52.

Iraq's Water Withdrawal is 43.7x that of Jordan (42.42 B m³ vs 0.95 B m³).

Iraq's Irrigated Land is 39.3x that of Jordan (35.3K km² vs 875 km²).

Iraq's Domestic Patents is 24.4x that of Jordan (635 vs 25).

Iraq's Firms Asked for Bribes is 12.1x that of Jordan (50.47% of firms vs 3.9% of firms).

Iraq's Total CO2 Emissions is 8.9x that of Jordan (238.67 Mt CO2e vs 24.14 Mt CO2e).

Key Comparisons

Water WithdrawalIraq leads

Iraq

42.42 B m³

Jordan

0.95 B m³

Irrigated LandIraq leads

Iraq

35.3K km²

Jordan

875 km²

Domestic PatentsIraq leads

Iraq

635

Jordan

Firms Asked for BribesIraq leads

Iraq

50.47% of firms

Jordan

3.9% of firms

Total CO2 EmissionsIraq leads

Iraq

238.67 Mt CO2e

Jordan

24.14 Mt CO2e

Forest AreaIraq leads

Jordan

283% higher

Population

Iraq

42.92M

Jordan

11.31M

279% higher

Teen Birth Rate

Iraq

58.01 per 1k

Jordan

18.43 per 1k

215% higher

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Iraq

41.35% of firms

Jordan

14.23% of firms

191% higher

Scientific Publications

Iraq

13.4K

Jordan

5.2K

155% higher

CO2 Per Capita

Iraq

5.1 t/person/yr

Jordan

2.0 t/person/yr

152% higher

Comparison of Iraq and Jordan across 117 metrics
				Winner
Water Withdrawal	42.42 B m³	0.95 B m³	4366% higher	Iraq
Irrigated Land	35.3K km²	875 km²	3929% higher	Iraq
Domestic Patents	635	25	2440% higher	Iraq
Firms Asked for Bribes	50.47% of firms	3.9% of firms	1209% higher	Iraq
Total CO2 Emissions	238.67 Mt CO2e	24.14 Mt CO2e	889% higher	Iraq
Forest Area	8.3K km²	975 km²	746% higher	Iraq
Electricity Generation	169.46 TWh	22.57 TWh	651% higher	Iraq
Firms Making Informal Payments	50.96% of firms	8.2% of firms	521% higher	Iraq
GDP (Nominal)	$279,641,257,615.39	$53,352,289,577.46	424% higher	Iraq
Suicide Rate	3.0 per 100k	0.60 per 100k	395% higher	Iraq
Land Area	434.1K km²	88.8K km²	389% higher	Iraq
Electric Generating Capacity	31.34M kW	6.89M kW	355% higher	Iraq
Railway Length	2.3K km	509 km	346% higher	Iraq
Armed Forces Personnel	459.0K	116.0K	296% higher	Iraq
Airports	69	18	283% higher	Iraq
Population	42.92M	11.31M	279% higher	Iraq
Teen Birth Rate	58.01 per 1k	18.43 per 1k	215% higher	Iraq
Firms Hit by Power Outages	41.35% of firms	14.23% of firms	191% higher	Iraq
Scientific Publications	13.4K	5.2K	155% higher	Iraq
CO2 Per Capita	5.1 t/person/yr	2.0 t/person/yr	152% higher	Iraq
Broadband Access (%)	17 per 100 people	7.0 per 100 people	143% higher	Iraq
Coastline Length	58 km	26 km	123% higher	Iraq
Merchant Fleet Size	74	34	118% higher	Iraq
Land Border Length	3.8K km	1.7K km	118% higher	Iraq
Beer Consumption	0.11 L/person/yr	0.05 L/person/yr	113% higher	Iraq
Political Corruption Index	0.89	0.42	111% higher	Iraq
Official Languages Count	2.0	1.0	100% higher	Iraq
Solar Electricity Share	0.29%	16.6%	98% lower	Jordan
Capital Elevation	34 m	776 m	96% lower	Jordan
Highest Elevation	3.6K m	1.9K m	95% higher	Iraq
Renewable Energy (%)	1.1%	11.5%	90% lower	Jordan
Agricultural Land (%)	21.83%	11.53%	89% higher	Iraq
Energy Use (Per Capita)	1.4K kg oil eq/person	754.31 kg oil eq/person	87% higher	Iraq
Insufficient Physical Activity	52.02% of adults	28.12% of adults	85% higher	Iraq
All-Time Olympic Medals	1.0 medals	4.0 medals	75% lower	Jordan
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.02 per 1M people	0.09 per 1M people	74% lower	Jordan
Spirits Consumption	0.04 L/person/yr	0.15 L/person/yr	73% lower	Jordan
Forest Coverage (%)	1.9%	1.1%	73% higher	Iraq
Government Debt (% GDP)	27.4% of GDP	102.8% of GDP	73% lower	Jordan
Protected Land (%)	1.5%	5.4%	72% lower	Jordan
Milk Consumption per Person	22.18 kg/person/yr	77.68 kg/person/yr	71% lower	Jordan
Child Mortality	22.6 per 1k births	13.2 per 1k births	71% higher	Iraq
Foreign Patents	98	322	70% lower	Jordan
Infant Mortality	20.8 per 1k births	12.2 per 1k births	70% higher	Iraq
Women in Senior Management	17.53% of managers	52.31% of managers	66% lower	Jordan
Doctors (per 1,000)	1.0 per 1k	2.9 per 1k	64% lower	Jordan
Road Traffic Death Rate	21.5 per 100k	13.6 per 100k	58% higher	Iraq
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.06 per 100k people	0.13 per 100k people	53% lower	Jordan
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	14.1 per 100k	29.31 per 100k	52% lower	Jordan
Military Spending	2.4% of GDP	4.8% of GDP	51% lower	Jordan
Credit Card Ownership	10.12% of adults	6.8% of adults	50% higher	Iraq
Women in Parliament (%)	28.88%	19.57%	48% higher	Iraq
Smoking Rate	19.2%	35.6%	46% lower	Jordan
Tourism Revenue	$955,000,000	$1,745,000,000	45% lower	Jordan
Corruption Perceptions Index	28 pts	50 pts	44% lower	Jordan
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	20 days/yr	14 days/yr	43% higher	Iraq
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	100 per 100 people	70 per 100 people	43% higher	Iraq
Imports (% GDP)	33.2% of GDP	57.07% of GDP	42% lower	Jordan
Mobile Money Accounts	11.87% of adults	20.56% of adults	42% lower	Jordan
Tobacco Use Prevalence	20.1% of adults	34.1% of adults	41% lower	Jordan
Seafood Consumption per Person	2.9 kg/person/yr	4.8 kg/person/yr	39% lower	Jordan
Health Spending (% GDP)	4.3% of GDP	6.8% of GDP	37% lower	Jordan
GNI Per Capita	$6,030	$4,430	36% higher	Iraq
Digital Payments Used	24.98% of adults	38.23% of adults	35% lower	Jordan
Average Weekly Work Hours	31.71 hrs/week	48.13 hrs/week	34% lower	Jordan
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$14,464.32	$10,821.49	34% higher	Iraq
Time Zones Count	2.0 time zones	3.0 time zones	33% lower	Jordan
Safe Drinking Water (%)	59.83%	88.95%	33% lower	Jordan
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	38.18 µg/m³	28.77 µg/m³	33% higher	Iraq
Electoral Democracy Index	0.37	0.28	31% higher	Iraq
Food Waste per Person	204.97 kg/person/yr	156.15 kg/person/yr	31% higher	Iraq
Electricity Carbon Intensity	683.1 gCO2/kWh	529.79 gCO2/kWh	29% higher	Iraq
Elderly Population (%)	3.4%	4.5%	25% lower	Jordan
Urban Population (%)	69.89%	92.95%	25% lower	Jordan
Informal Employment Share	67.64% of employed people	54.22% of employed people	25% higher	Iraq
Dependency Ratio	66.65% of working-age pop.	54.3% of working-age pop.	23% higher	Iraq
Hypertension Prevalence	47.4% of adults	38.5% of adults	23% higher	Iraq
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	1.4K kWh/person	1.8K kWh/person	23% lower	Jordan
Liberal Democracy Index	0.22	0.27	20% lower	Jordan
Border Neighbors	6.0	5.0	20% higher	Iraq
Population Density	103.83 /km²	128.83 /km²	19% lower	Jordan
Youth Population (%)	36.58%	30.67%	19% higher	Iraq
Youth Unemployment Rate	32.01% of youth labor force	38.88% of youth labor force	18% lower	Jordan
Women's Political Empowerment	0.56	0.67	17% lower	Jordan
Median Age	20.3 years	24.3 years	16% lower	Jordan
Life Evaluation Score	5.2 pts	4.5 pts	16% higher	Iraq
Unemployment Rate	15.52%	18%	14% lower	Jordan
Health Spending Per Capita	$254.62	$295.14	14% lower	Jordan
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	6.0 sites	7.0 sites	14% lower	Jordan
Water Stress (%)	120.52%	139.28%	13% lower	Jordan
Internet Users (%)	82%	93%	12% lower	Jordan
Exports (% GDP)	37.51% of GDP	42.61% of GDP	12% lower	Jordan
Adult Literacy Rate	84.06%	94.85%	11% lower	Jordan
Death Rate	3.9 per 1k	3.5 per 1k	10% higher	Iraq
Human Development Index	0.69	0.75	8% lower	Jordan
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.3 per 1k	1.4 per 1k	7% lower	Jordan
Life Expectancy	72.3 years	77.8 years	7% lower	Jordan
Fertility Rate	3.0 children/woman	2.8 children/woman	7% higher	Iraq
Can Raise Emergency Money	95.98% of adults	89.61% of adults	7% higher	Iraq
Firms with Female Top Manager	1.6% of firms	1.8% of firms	7% lower	Jordan
Birth Rate	23.26 per 1k	21.9 per 1k	6% higher	Iraq
Obesity Rate	37.36%	35.61%	5% higher	Iraq
Alcohol Consumption	0.24 L/adult/yr	0.23 L/adult/yr	4% higher	Iraq
Freedom of Expression Index	0.57	0.56	3% higher	Iraq
Sanitation Access (%)	98.5%	96.41%	2% higher	Iraq
Vehicles per 1,000 People	153.77 per 1k people	150.15 per 1k people	2% higher	Iraq
Air Passengers	3.76M	3.73M	1% higher	Iraq
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Iraq
Wind Electricity Share	0%	7.4%	ranked lower	Jordan
Electricity Access (%)	100%	100%	equal	Iraq
Inflation Rate	-12.3%	1.6%	ranked lower	Jordan
GDP Growth Rate	-1.55%	2.5%	ranked lower	Jordan
Lowest Elevation	0 m	-431 m	ranked higher	Iraq
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-1.7% of GDP	-5.6% of GDP	ranked higher	Iraq
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	-2.74% of GDP	3.1% of GDP	ranked lower	Jordan
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	0 gold medals	1.0 gold medals	ranked lower	Jordan
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	1.5 per 1M people	ranked lower	Jordan

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Analysis

Iraq leads in 65 of 117 shared metrics, while Jordan leads in 52.

Iraq's Water Withdrawal is 43.7x that of Jordan (42.42 B m³ vs 0.95 B m³).

Iraq's Irrigated Land is 39.3x that of Jordan (35.3K km² vs 875 km²).

Iraq's Domestic Patents is 24.4x that of Jordan (635 vs 25).

Iraq's Firms Asked for Bribes is 12.1x that of Jordan (50.47% of firms vs 3.9% of firms).

Iraq's Total CO2 Emissions is 8.9x that of Jordan (238.67 Mt CO2e vs 24.14 Mt CO2e).

Key Comparisons

Water WithdrawalIraq leads

Iraq

42.42 B m³

Jordan

0.95 B m³

Irrigated LandIraq leads

Iraq

35.3K km²

Jordan

875 km²

Domestic PatentsIraq leads

Iraq

635

Jordan

Firms Asked for BribesIraq leads

Iraq

50.47% of firms

Jordan

3.9% of firms

Total CO2 EmissionsIraq leads

Iraq

238.67 Mt CO2e

Jordan

24.14 Mt CO2e

Forest AreaIraq leads

Iraq

8.3K km²

Jordan

975 km²

Water Withdrawal

42.42 B m³

0.95 B m³

Irrigated Land

35.3K km²

875 km²

Domestic Patents

635

Firms Asked for Bribes

50.47% of firms

3.9% of firms

Total CO2 Emissions

238.67 Mt CO2e

24.14 Mt CO2e

Forest Area

8.3K km²

975 km²

Electricity Generation

169.46 TWh

22.57 TWh

Firms Making Informal Payments

50.96% of firms

8.2% of firms

GDP (Nominal)

$279,641,257,615.39

$53,352,289,577.46

Suicide Rate

3.0 per 100k

0.60 per 100k

Land Area

434.1K km²

88.8K km²

Electric Generating Capacity

31.34M kW

6.89M kW

Railway Length

2.3K km

509 km

Armed Forces Personnel

459.0K

116.0K

Airports

Population

42.92M

11.31M

Teen Birth Rate

58.01 per 1k

18.43 per 1k

Firms Hit by Power Outages

41.35% of firms

14.23% of firms

Scientific Publications

13.4K

5.2K

CO2 Per Capita

5.1 t/person/yr

2.0 t/person/yr

Iraq vs Jordan

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Water Withdrawal

Irrigated Land

Domestic Patents

Firms Asked for Bribes

Total CO2 Emissions

Forest Area

Electricity Generation

Firms Making Informal Payments

GDP (Nominal)

Suicide Rate

Land Area

Electric Generating Capacity

Railway Length

Armed Forces Personnel

Airports

Population

Teen Birth Rate

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Scientific Publications

CO2 Per Capita

Broadband Access (%)

Coastline Length

Merchant Fleet Size

Land Border Length

Beer Consumption

Political Corruption Index

Official Languages Count

Solar Electricity Share

Capital Elevation

Highest Elevation

Renewable Energy (%)

Agricultural Land (%)

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Insufficient Physical Activity

All-Time Olympic Medals

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

Spirits Consumption

Forest Coverage (%)

Government Debt (% GDP)

Protected Land (%)

Milk Consumption per Person

Child Mortality

Foreign Patents

Infant Mortality

Women in Senior Management

Doctors (per 1,000)

Road Traffic Death Rate

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Military Spending

Credit Card Ownership

Women in Parliament (%)

Smoking Rate

Tourism Revenue

Corruption Perceptions Index

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Imports (% GDP)

Mobile Money Accounts

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Seafood Consumption per Person

Health Spending (% GDP)

GNI Per Capita

Digital Payments Used

Average Weekly Work Hours

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Time Zones Count

Safe Drinking Water (%)

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Electoral Democracy Index

Food Waste per Person

Electricity Carbon Intensity