The Jordanian women’s statistics issued by the Department of Statistics for the year 2020 showed that the percentage of women in Jordan who head their families amounted to 17.5%, an unprecedented increase, and the table of the estimated population and families numbers for the year 2020 showed that the number of families in Jordan reached 2.242 million families, including 392.3 One thousand families headed by women.

The Association of the Jordanian Women’s Solidarity Institute “Tadamon” indicates that women who head their families struggle to secure the basic needs of family members, and to preserve their lives, health, future and the future of their children, in light of fragile economic conditions, and in societies in which women’s social status is often linked. status and presence of their husbands.

Women who head their families have many responsibilities, including those related to raising children and others to securing material needs and living and living expenses, and they are in dire need of community support, especially since many of them suffer from weak education and / or inability to work and / or inability On educating children.

A significant increase in the percentage of families headed by women in Jordan

Solidarity adds that the families headed by women witnessed a significant increase, reaching about 392 thousand families, or 17.5% of the total Jordanian families in 2020. While the number of families headed by women increased between 1994-2009 by 12.8% in (2009), compared to 9.6% of the total number of families in the year (1994).

In terms of the distribution of families headed by women over the governorates of the Kingdom, it is clear that Zarqa Governorate ranked first in terms of the number of families, with a rate of 20.1%, and the lowest in Aqaba governorate with a rate of 12.6%. %, Ma’an 16.1%, Madaba 16.1%, Balqa 15.8%, Irbid 15.2%, Ajloun 14.5%, Jerash 14.3% and Mafraq 13.5%.

252 thousand widows and 56 thousand widows in Jordan until the end of 2019

The estimated population of Jordan until the end of 2019 was 10.554 million, including 5.588 million males and 4.966 million females. The number of Jordan’s population over the age of 15 reached 6.929 million, including 3.729 million males and 3.200 million females.

According to marital status, the statistics show that there are 1.674 million singles and 1.117 million singles (44.9% of males and 34.9% of females over 15 years of age), and there are 1.976 million married men and 1.786 million married women (53% of males and 55.8% of females). Females), while the number of male widows reached 55.93 thousand and 252.80 thousand (1.5% of males and 7.9% of females). Statistics also showed the presence of 22.37 thousand divorced women and 44.80 thousand divorced women (0.6% of males and 1.4% of females). While the number of males over 35 years of age who have never been married reached 79.4 thousand males and 122.8 thousand females.

The average annual income of a family in Jordan is 11,242 dinars, 40% of which comes from use

The average annual income for families in Jordan is 11,242 dinars, of which 4490.5 dinars come from employment (40%), 980.3 dinars from private work (8.7%), 1861.5 dinars from rent income (16.5%), 94.2 dinars from property income, and 3813.3 dinars Dinars from remittances (34%).

Families headed by women relied for their sources of income on rents and transfers, at a rate of 69% of the total average annual income, and their income from work and employment constituted only 30.6%, while male income from work and employment constituted 36.1% of the total average annual income of their families, which confirms the concerns From the growing unemployment under the conditions of the Corona pandemic, especially among females, who need to be empowered economically to carry out the additional burdens caused by the circumstances of their headship.

Women spend more money on health care for their families than males

The 2017 Department of Statistics figures showed a difference in the average annual household expenditure and the average annual income between households headed by women and those headed by men. The average expenditure of families headed by women is 10,016 dinars compared to 12,596 dinars for those headed by men, while the average current income of families headed by women is 9,534 dinars compared to 11,519 dinars for families headed by men.

There are other differences in the expenditure aspects of families headed by women, as well as differences in the sources of income. Despite the difference in the average annual spending between households headed by women and those headed by males, which amounted to 2580 dinars, women spent more on their families than men in the field of health care.

The analytical study of gender issues 2016, issued by the Department of Statistics, showed that the percentage of families who own their homes in Jordan reached 60.6%. It is noteworthy that the percentage of families headed by women who owned their homes decreased to 62.9%, while 75% of them owned their homes, according to the 2004 census. This decrease is attributed to the increase in the number of non-Jordanians in the Kingdom (7% in 2004 to 30% in 2015).