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=== Refugees === {{Further||Iraqis in Jordan|Syrians in Jordan|Palestinians in Jordan}}Jordan is a home to 2,175,491 registered Palestinian refugees.<ref name="wwwj2">{{cite web|url=http://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/jordan|title=Jordan|date=1 December 2015|publisher=UNRWA|access-date=14 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331181426/https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/jordan|archive-date=31 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Out of those 2,175,491 refugees, 634,182 have not been given Jordanian citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/population-stands-around-95-million-including-29-million-guests|title=Population stands at around 9.5 million, including 2.9 million guests|date=2016-01-30|website=Jordan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208092804/http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/population-stands-around-95-million-including-29-million-guests|archive-date=2018-02-08|url-status=live}}</ref> Jordan also hosts around 1.4 million [[Syrian Refugees|Syrian refugees]] who fled to the country due to the [[Syrian Civil War]] since 2011. About 31,163 Yemenis and 22,700 Libyan refugees live in Jordan as of January 2015.<ref name="2015census2" /> There are thousands of [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] refugees who came to [[Jordan]] when [[Lebanese Civil War|civil strife and war]] and the [[2006 Lebanon War|2006 war]] broke out in their native country. Up to 1 million [[Iraqis in Jordan|Iraqis]] came to Jordan following the [[Iraq War]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6293807.stm|title=Doors closing on fleeing Iraqis|date=2007|access-date=2018-02-13|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403063927/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6293807.stm|archive-date=2019-04-03|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, their number was 130,911. About 2,500 Iraqi [[Mandaeans|Mandaean]] refugees have been resettled in Jordan.
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