Healthy diet unaffordable in Jordan

Name: Healthy diet unaffordable in Jordan
Creator: FAOSTAT
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In Jordan, 2.2% of people could not afford a healthy diet in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2017.

People unable to afford a healthy diet % of the population Data: 2017 to 2025 Source: FAOSTAT

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Jordan, 2025 2.2%e % of the population

Change from 2024 −0.1percentage points 2024: 2.3%

World, 2025 32.7%e Official aggregate

Position in 2025 130th of 145 See the full ranking

Healthy diet unaffordable in Jordan over time

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% of the population. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

People unable to afford a healthy diet (% of the population), 2017 to 2025
Period	Jordan	World
2025	2.2%e (Estimated value)	32.7%e (Estimated value)
2024	2.3%e (Estimated value)	34.3%e (Estimated value)
2023	2.4%e (Estimated value)	35.4%e (Estimated value)
2022	2.5%e (Estimated value)	36.7%e (Estimated value)
2021	2.7%e (Estimated value)	37.4%e (Estimated value)
2020	3.0%e (Estimated value)	39.6%e (Estimated value)
2019	2.5%e (Estimated value)	38.0%e (Estimated value)
2018	2.5%e (Estimated value)	39.0%e (Estimated value)
2017	2.6%e (Estimated value)	41.0%e (Estimated value)

Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 2.3% in 2024.
Since 2017, when it was 2.6%, the figure has changed by −0.4 percentage points.
Among the 145 countries with data for 2025, Jordan has the 130th highest value.
The figure for the world in 2025 was 32.7%.

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All statistics for Jordan

Cost of a healthy diet Int$3.45e per person per day 2025 · FAOSTAT Pesticide use 2.19e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Nitrogen fertiliser use 56.3e kg/ha 2024 · FAOSTAT Agriculture share of GDP 5.6% 2025 · World Bank Cereal yield 1,611 kg per hectare 2024 · World Bank Agricultural land 11.6% 2024 · World Bank

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Original producer: FAOSTAT
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT
Dataset or series code: CAHD · dataset details · view at source
Selection: Item Code=7005 Element Code=6121
Observation period: 2017 to 2025 for Jordan
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (FAO statistical database terms)
Attribution: Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0

How Jordan compares in 2025 Neighbouring positions among 145 countries with a value for 2025.

127 Austria 2.9%e (Estimated value)
128 United Kingdom 2.9%e (Estimated value)
129 Slovenia 2.3%e (Estimated value)
130 Jordan 2.2%e (Estimated value)
131 Finland 2.0%e (Estimated value)
132 Qatar 1.9%e (Estimated value)
133 United Arab Emirates 1.9%e (Estimated value)

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What this measures

Share of the population whose income, after setting aside an amount for other basic needs, is too low to buy the cheapest healthy diet available locally.

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