Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Jordan instead of District of Columbia, you would:

Health

be 39.7% more likely to be obese

In District of Columbia, 25.3% of adults are obese as of 2022. In Jordan, that number is 35.4% of people as of 2024.

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Economy

be 2.6 times more likely to be unemployed

In District of Columbia, 6.4% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Jordan, that number is 16.5% as of 2025.

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make 97.4% less money

District of Columbia has a GDP per capita of $209,167 as of 2024, while in Jordan, the GDP per capita is $5,348 as of 2025.

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Sources: World Bank (2025), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022), World Health Organization (2024), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Jordan is 73.8% cheaper than District of Columbia
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District of Columbia is about 505 times smaller than Jordan.
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Jordan: At a glance

Jordan is a sovereign country in Middle East, with a total land area of approximately 88,802 sq km. Following World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations awarded Britain the mandate to govern much of the Middle East. Britain demarcated a semi-autonomous region of Transjordan from Palestine in the early 1920s. The area gained its independence in 1946 and thereafter became The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The country's long-time ruler, King HUSSEIN (1953-99), successfully navigated competing pressures from the major powers (US, USSR, and UK), various Arab states, Israel, and a large internal Palestinian population. Jordan lost the West Bank to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. King HUSSEIN in 1988 permanently relinquished Jordanian claims to the West Bank; in 1994 he signed a peace treaty with Israel. King ABDALLAH II, King HUSSEIN's eldest son, assumed the throne following his father's death in 1999. He implemented modest political and economic reforms, but in the wake of the "Arab Revolution" across the Middle East, Jordanians continue to press for further political liberalization, government reforms, and economic improvements. In January 2014, Jordan assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2014-15 term.
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