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Jordan vs Lebanon

122 shared metrics.

JordanLeads in 65

vs122 shared

LebanonLeads in 57

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Jordan

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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

Lebanon

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Lebanese Republic.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Lebanon's Byblos has been inhabited since Neolithic times and is tied to the Phoenician alphabet.

UNESCO

Analysis

Jordan leads in 65 of 122 shared metrics, while Lebanon leads in 57.

Jordan's Wind Electricity Share is 37.9x that of Lebanon (7.4% vs 0.19%).

Jordan's Land Area is 7.7x that of Lebanon (88.8K km² vs 10.2K km²).

Jordan's Mobile Money Accounts is 6.6x that of Lebanon (20.56% of adults vs 2.7% of adults).

Jordan's Electricity Generation is 4.0x that of Lebanon (22.57 TWh vs 4.5 TWh).

Jordan's Water Stress (%) is 2.7x that of Lebanon (139.28% vs 37.75%).

Key Comparisons

Wind Electricity ShareJordan leads

Jordan

7.4%

Lebanon

0.19%

Land AreaJordan leads

Jordan

88.8K km²

Lebanon

10.2K km²

Mobile Money AccountsJordan leads

Jordan

20.56% of adults

Lebanon

2.7% of adults

Electricity GenerationJordan leads

Jordan

22.57 TWh

Lebanon

4.5 TWh

Water Stress (%)Jordan leads

Jordan

139.28%

Lebanon

37.75%

Land Border LengthJordan leads

Lebanon

Jordan

1.6%

Lebanon

45.2%

96% lower

Comparison of Jordan and Lebanon across 122 metrics
				Winner
Wind Electricity Share	7.4%	0.19%	3789% higher	Jordan
Land Area	88.8K km²	10.2K km²	768% higher	Jordan
Mobile Money Accounts	20.56% of adults	2.7% of adults	657% higher	Jordan
Electricity Generation	22.57 TWh	4.5 TWh	399% higher	Jordan
Water Stress (%)	139.28%	37.75%	269% higher	Jordan
Land Border Length	1.7K km	484 km	260% higher	Jordan
Firms Hit by Power Outages	14.23% of firms	4.4% of firms	222% higher	Jordan
Women in Parliament (%)	19.57%	6.3%	213% higher	Jordan
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	17.05% of GDP	5.7% of GDP	200% higher	Jordan
Education Spending (% GDP)	3.5% of GDP	1.2% of GDP	187% higher	Jordan
GDP (Nominal)	$53,352,289,577.46	$20,078,620,356.99	166% higher	Jordan
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	1.8K kWh/person	680.65 kWh/person	163% higher	Jordan
Airports	18	7.0	157% higher	Jordan
Scientific Publications	5.2K	2.1K	151% higher	Jordan
Border Neighbors	5.0	2.0	150% higher	Jordan
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.13 per 100k people	0.06 per 100k people	138% higher	Jordan
Total CO2 Emissions	24.14 Mt CO2e	11 Mt CO2e	119% higher	Jordan
Corruption Perceptions Index	50 pts	23 pts	117% higher	Jordan
Population	11.31M	5.36M	111% higher	Jordan
Inflation Rate	1.6%	45.2%	96% lower	Lebanon
Forest Coverage (%)	1.1%	14.19%	92% lower	Lebanon
Digital Payments Used	38.23% of adults	20.25% of adults	89% higher	Jordan
Coastline Length	26 km	225 km	88% lower	Lebanon
Safe Drinking Water (%)	88.95%	47.7%	86% higher	Jordan
Beer Consumption	0.05 L/person/yr	0.34 L/person/yr	85% lower	Lebanon
Military Spending	4.8% of GDP	2.6% of GDP	85% higher	Jordan
Agricultural Land (%)	11.53%	65.91%	83% lower	Lebanon
Firms Asked for Bribes	3.9% of firms	21.79% of firms	82% lower	Lebanon
Alcohol Consumption	0.23 L/adult/yr	1.3 L/adult/yr	82% lower	Lebanon
Women in Senior Management	52.31% of managers	28.87% of managers	81% higher	Jordan
Population Density	128.83 /km²	564.37 /km²	77% lower	Lebanon
Youth Unemployment Rate	38.88% of youth labor force	22.74% of youth labor force	71% higher	Jordan
Firms with Female Top Manager	1.8% of firms	5.9% of firms	70% lower	Lebanon
Renewable Energy (%)	11.5%	6.8%	69% higher	Jordan
Spirits Consumption	0.15 L/person/yr	0.43 L/person/yr	64% lower	Lebanon
Meat Consumption per Person	37.91 kg/person/yr	23.97 kg/person/yr	58% higher	Jordan
Unemployment Rate	18%	11.54%	56% higher	Jordan
Homicide Rate	0.99 per 100k	2.2 per 100k	56% lower	Lebanon
Elderly Population (%)	4.5%	10.14%	55% lower	Lebanon
Seafood Consumption per Person	4.8 kg/person/yr	10.51 kg/person/yr	54% lower	Lebanon
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.09 per 1M people	0.19 per 1M people	53% lower	Lebanon
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	28.77 µg/m³	19.23 µg/m³	50% higher	Jordan
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	1.5 per 1M people	3.0 per 1M people	50% lower	Lebanon
Credit Card Ownership	6.8% of adults	4.5% of adults	50% higher	Jordan
Political Corruption Index	0.42	0.83	49% lower	Lebanon
Vehicles per 1,000 People	150.15 per 1k people	295.18 per 1k people	49% lower	Lebanon
Insufficient Physical Activity	28.12% of adults	54.63% of adults	49% lower	Lebanon
Water Withdrawal	0.95 B m³	1.8 B m³	48% lower	Lebanon
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.4 per 1k	2.7 per 1k	48% lower	Lebanon
Solar Electricity Share	16.6%	29.96%	45% lower	Lebanon
Armed Forces Personnel	116.0K	80.0K	45% higher	Jordan
Death Rate	3.5 per 1k	6.2 per 1k	44% lower	Lebanon
Time Zones Count	3.0 time zones	5.0 time zones	40% lower	Lebanon
Highest Elevation	1.9K m	3.1K m	40% lower	Lebanon
Road Traffic Death Rate	13.6 per 100k	9.7 per 100k	40% higher	Jordan
Air Passengers	3.73M	2.69M	39% higher	Jordan
Exports (% GDP)	42.61% of GDP	30.55% of GDP	39% higher	Jordan
Electricity Carbon Intensity	529.79 gCO2/kWh	389.51 gCO2/kWh	36% higher	Jordan
University Enrollment Rate	35.92%	54.4%	34% lower	Lebanon
Big Mac Price	$3.53	$5.36	34% lower	Lebanon
Electric Generating Capacity	6.89M kW	5.16M kW	34% higher	Jordan
Merchant Fleet Size	34	51	33% lower	Lebanon
Forest Area	975 km²	1.5K km²	33% lower	Lebanon
Electoral Democracy Index	0.28	0.42	33% lower	Lebanon
Milk Consumption per Person	77.68 kg/person/yr	114.52 kg/person/yr	32% lower	Lebanon
Protected Land (%)	5.4%	7.9%	32% lower	Lebanon
Birth Rate	21.9 per 1k	16.73 per 1k	31% higher	Jordan
Government Debt (% GDP)	102.8% of GDP	146.8% of GDP	30% lower	Lebanon
Fertility Rate	2.8 children/woman	2.2 children/woman	29% higher	Jordan
Child Mortality	13.2 per 1k births	18.3 per 1k births	28% lower	Lebanon
High-Tech Exports (%)	2.1%	2.9%	28% lower	Lebanon
Railway Length	509 km	401 km	27% higher	Jordan
Firms Making Informal Payments	8.2% of firms	11.28% of firms	27% lower	Lebanon
Tobacco Use Prevalence	34.1% of adults	46.3% of adults	26% lower	Lebanon
Tourism Revenue	$1,745,000,000	$2,369,000,000	26% lower	Lebanon
CO2 Per Capita	2.0 t/person/yr	2.7 t/person/yr	25% lower	Lebanon
Health Spending Per Capita	$295.14	$392.38	25% lower	Lebanon
Freedom of Expression Index	0.56	0.74	25% lower	Lebanon
Infant Mortality	12.2 per 1k births	16 per 1k births	24% lower	Lebanon
Imports (% GDP)	57.07% of GDP	73.66% of GDP	23% lower	Lebanon
Energy Use (Per Capita)	754.31 kg oil eq/person	617.48 kg oil eq/person	22% higher	Jordan
GNI Per Capita	$4,430	$3,700	20% higher	Jordan
Life Evaluation Score	4.5 pts	3.7 pts	20% higher	Jordan
Health Spending (% GDP)	6.8% of GDP	5.7% of GDP	19% higher	Jordan
Youth Population (%)	30.67%	26.19%	17% higher	Jordan
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	7.0 sites	6.0 sites	17% higher	Jordan
Irrigated Land	875 km²	1.0K km²	16% lower	Lebanon
Obesity Rate	35.61%	31.07%	15% higher	Jordan
Food Waste per Person	156.15 kg/person/yr	183.25 kg/person/yr	15% lower	Lebanon
Median Age	24.3 years	28.3 years	14% lower	Lebanon
Suicide Rate	0.60 per 100k	0.70 per 100k	14% lower	Lebanon
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$10,821.49	$12,574.83	14% lower	Lebanon
Shipping Traffic	765.7K	675.1K	13% higher	Jordan
Teen Birth Rate	18.43 per 1k	20.83 per 1k	12% lower	Lebanon
Internet Users (%)	93%	84%	11% higher	Jordan
Women's Political Empowerment	0.67	0.61	10% higher	Jordan
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	29.31 per 100k	31.95 per 100k	8% lower	Lebanon
Can Raise Emergency Money	89.61% of adults	82.94% of adults	8% higher	Jordan
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	14 days/yr	15 days/yr	7% lower	Lebanon
Doctors (per 1,000)	2.9 per 1k	2.7 per 1k	6% higher	Jordan
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	3.1% of GDP	3.3% of GDP	6% lower	Lebanon
Dependency Ratio	54.3% of working-age pop.	57.05% of working-age pop.	5% lower	Lebanon
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	70 per 100 people	74.01 per 100 people	5% lower	Lebanon
Smoking Rate	35.6%	34.3%	4% higher	Jordan
Liberal Democracy Index	0.27	0.27	3% higher	Jordan
Sanitation Access (%)	96.41%	99.2%	3% lower	Lebanon
Urban Population (%)	92.95%	90.7%	2% higher	Jordan
Informal Employment Share	54.22% of employed people	55.45% of employed people	2% lower	Lebanon
Average Weekly Work Hours	48.13 hrs/week	47.57 hrs/week	1% higher	Jordan
Hypertension Prevalence	38.5% of adults	38.1% of adults	1% higher	Jordan
Human Development Index	0.75	0.75	equal	Jordan
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Jordan
Electricity Access (%)	100%	100%	equal	Jordan
Broadband Access (%)	7.0 per 100 people	7.0 per 100 people	equal	Jordan
Life Expectancy	77.8 years	77.8 years	equal	Lebanon
GDP Growth Rate	2.5%	-0.76%	ranked higher	Jordan
Capital Elevation	776 m	0 m	ranked higher	Jordan
Lowest Elevation	-431 m	0 m	ranked lower	Lebanon
Official Languages Count	1.0	1.0	equal	Jordan
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-5.6% of GDP	-22.5% of GDP	ranked higher	Jordan
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	1.0 gold medals	0 gold medals	ranked higher	Jordan
All-Time Olympic Medals	4.0 medals	4.0 medals	equal	Jordan

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Analysis

Jordan leads in 65 of 122 shared metrics, while Lebanon leads in 57.

Jordan's Wind Electricity Share is 37.9x that of Lebanon (7.4% vs 0.19%).

Jordan's Land Area is 7.7x that of Lebanon (88.8K km² vs 10.2K km²).

Jordan's Mobile Money Accounts is 6.6x that of Lebanon (20.56% of adults vs 2.7% of adults).

Jordan's Electricity Generation is 4.0x that of Lebanon (22.57 TWh vs 4.5 TWh).

Jordan's Water Stress (%) is 2.7x that of Lebanon (139.28% vs 37.75%).

Key Comparisons

Wind Electricity ShareJordan leads

Jordan

7.4%

Lebanon

0.19%

Land AreaJordan leads

Jordan

88.8K km²

Lebanon

10.2K km²

Mobile Money AccountsJordan leads

Jordan

20.56% of adults

Lebanon

2.7% of adults

Electricity GenerationJordan leads

Jordan

22.57 TWh

Lebanon

4.5 TWh

Water Stress (%)Jordan leads

Jordan

139.28%

Lebanon

37.75%

Land Border LengthJordan leads

Jordan

1.7K km

Lebanon

484 km

Wind Electricity Share

7.4%

0.19%

Land Area

88.8K km²

10.2K km²

Mobile Money Accounts

20.56% of adults

2.7% of adults

Electricity Generation

22.57 TWh

4.5 TWh

Water Stress (%)

139.28%

37.75%

Land Border Length

1.7K km

484 km

Firms Hit by Power Outages

14.23% of firms

4.4% of firms

Women in Parliament (%)

19.57%

6.3%

Tax Revenue (% GDP)

17.05% of GDP

5.7% of GDP

Education Spending (% GDP)

3.5% of GDP

1.2% of GDP

GDP (Nominal)

$53,352,289,577.46

$20,078,620,356.99

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

1.8K kWh/person

680.65 kWh/person

Airports

7.0

Scientific Publications

5.2K

2.1K

Border Neighbors

5.0

2.0

0.13 per 100k people

0.06 per 100k people

Total CO2 Emissions

24.14 Mt CO2e

11 Mt CO2e

Corruption Perceptions Index

50 pts

23 pts

Population

11.31M

5.36M

Inflation Rate

1.6%

45.2%

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Wind Electricity Share

Land Area

Mobile Money Accounts

Electricity Generation

Water Stress (%)

Land Border Length

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Women in Parliament (%)

Tax Revenue (% GDP)

Education Spending (% GDP)

GDP (Nominal)

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Airports

Scientific Publications

Border Neighbors

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Total CO2 Emissions

Corruption Perceptions Index

Population

Inflation Rate

Forest Coverage (%)

Digital Payments Used

Coastline Length

Safe Drinking Water (%)

Beer Consumption

Military Spending

Agricultural Land (%)

Firms Asked for Bribes

Alcohol Consumption

Women in Senior Management

Population Density

Youth Unemployment Rate

Firms with Female Top Manager

Renewable Energy (%)

Spirits Consumption

Meat Consumption per Person

Unemployment Rate

Homicide Rate

Elderly Population (%)

Seafood Consumption per Person

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

McDonald's Outlets per Million People

Credit Card Ownership

Political Corruption Index

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Insufficient Physical Activity

Water Withdrawal

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Solar Electricity Share

Armed Forces Personnel

Death Rate

Time Zones Count

Highest Elevation

Road Traffic Death Rate

Air Passengers

Exports (% GDP)

Electricity Carbon Intensity

University Enrollment Rate

Big Mac Price

Electric Generating Capacity

Merchant Fleet Size

Forest Area

Electoral Democracy Index

Milk Consumption per Person

Protected Land (%)

Birth Rate

Government Debt (% GDP)

Fertility Rate

Child Mortality

High-Tech Exports (%)

Railway Length