Jordan registers 352,553 refugees and asylum-seekers as of 1 October 2026
Refugee Population
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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In brief
- What happenedUNHCR's Jordan population dashboard records 352,553 registered refugees and asylum-seekers of all nationalities as of 1 October 2026.
- How many affectedRegistered refugees and asylum-seekers: 352,553 · all nationalities · administrative registration count as of 1 October 2026 · Location type: 277,832 urban · 74,721 in camps · Country of origin: Syria 329,720 · Iraq 11,992 · Yemen 6,000 · Sudan 4,167 · other nationalities 674
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
Updated verified snapshot
This record was first dated 2026-10-01 and last verified 2026-10-07.
Situation
UNHCR's Jordan population dashboard records 352,553 registered refugees and asylum-seekers of all nationalities as of 1 October 2026. The total comprises 277,832 people living in urban settings and 74,721 living in camps. The country-of-origin table lists 329,720 Syrians, 11,992 Iraqis, 6,000 Yemenis, 4,167 Sudanese and 674 people of other nationalities.
The dashboard separately reports 182,007 children, 157,868 adults and 12,678 older people. Its camp table records 44,077 people in Zaatari, 30,496 in Azraq and 148 in Garden Camp. These are administrative registration and location counts, not a new-arrival series or a count of people newly displaced during September. WorldsAid does not infer casualties, unmet needs, a procurement deficit or a month-on-month change that the source does not explicitly calculate.
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 7 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Registered refugees and asylum-seekers
- 352,553 · all nationalities · administrative registration count as of 1 October 2026 retained at 2026-10-07
- Location type
- 277,832 urban · 74,721 in camps retained at 2026-10-07
- Country of origin
- Syria 329,720 · Iraq 11,992 · Yemen 6,000 · Sudan 4,167 · other nationalities 674 retained at 2026-10-07
- Age groups
- Children 182,007 · adults 157,868 · older people 12,678 retained at 2026-10-07
- Camp populations
- Zaatari 44,077 · Azraq 30,496 · Garden Camp 148 retained at 2026-10-07
- Largest governorate totals
- Amman 120,304 · Irbid 54,215 · Al Mafraq 44,456 · Zarqa 20,273 retained at 2026-10-07
- Scope safeguard
- Administrative registration, location and demographic counts are retained as source-defined scopes; no new-arrival total, casualties, affected-population total or procurement deficit is inferred retained at 2026-10-07
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- UNHCR JORDAN · 352,553 REGISTERED REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS · 277,832 URBAN · 74,721 IN CAMPS · AS OF 1 OCTOBER 2026 preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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Verified
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