Jordan has suffered from the socio-economic impact of COVID-19. 93 percent of refugee households are below the refugee poverty line with 35 percent below the abject poverty line. The results of WFP’s June 2021 mobile vulnerability analysis and mapping (mVAM) showed 23.4 percent of refugees are food insecure, with an additional 60 percent vulnerable to food insecurity.įemale-headed households, small households, and households with disabilities have disproportionally poor food consumption.
While Jordan is considered a food secure country with a score of 8.8 on the 2020 Global Hunger Index, food security is challenged by a multitude of structural and political factors, such as high poverty rates, unemployment, slow economic growth and increased cost of living, with marked disparities between regions and population groups. While Jordan’s National Aid Fund (NAF) has scaled-up its coverage of vulnerable Jordanians in response to COVID-19, social safety net coverage remains limited.įood security has been a key concern for refugees in camps and communities, with their decreased income due to loss of informal labour opportunities and their weakened market access associated with lack of financial resources. Around 83 percent of refugees live in cities while 17 percent live in Za’atari and Azraq refugee camps. It is a resource-poor, food-deficit country with limited agricultural land, no oil resources and a scarce water supply. Jordan hosts the second highest share of refugees per capita in the world with over 750,000 refugees registered as of July 2021, mostly from Syria (89 percent). Jordan is an upper middle-income country, with a population of 10.9 million, quite youthful with 74 percent below the age of 30.
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