Editing Economy of Jordan (section)

== Currency ==
The [[Central Bank of Jordan]] commenced operations in 1964 and is the sole issuer of Jordanian currency, the [[Jordanian dinar]], which is pegged to the US dollar. The following chart of the trend of gross domestic product of Jordan at market prices by the [[International Monetary Fund]] with figures in millions of Jordanian dinars.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2006/01/data/dbginim.cfm |title=Select Country or Country Groups |access-date=26 May 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527043543/http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2006/01/data/dbginim.cfm |archive-date=27 May 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year || Gross domestic product<br> (JD million) || $US exchange || Inflation index <br >(2000=100)
|-
| 1980 || 1,165 || 0.29 Jordanian dinars || 35
|-
| 1985 || 1,971 || 0.39 Jordanian dinars || 45
|-
| 1990 || 2,761 || 0.66 Jordanian dinars || 70
|-
| 1995 || 4,715 || 0.70 Jordanian dinars || 87
|-
| 2005 || 9,118 || 0.70 Jordanian dinars || 112
|}

For purchasing power parity comparisons, the Jordanian dinar is exchanged per US dollar at 0.710.
 
Jordan's population is 6,342,948<ref name=CIAWF>CIA World Factbook - People</ref> and mean wages were $4.19 per [[man-hour]] in 2009.