International rankings of Jordan

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The following are the international rankings of Jordan.

Cities

• Amman was ranked as a "gamma" world city in The World According to GaWC 2008^[1]

Economic

• The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation: Index of Economic Freedom 2011, ranked 38th out of 179 countries^[2]

• International Monetary Fund:
  • GDP (nominal) per capita, 2010, ranked 90th out of 183 countries
  • GDP (nominal), 2010, ranked 97th out of 181 countries

• World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Index, 2010-2011, ranked 65th out of 139 countries^[3]

Environmental

• Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network:
  • Environmental Sustainability Index, 2005, ranked 84th out of 146 countries
  • Environmental Performance Index, 2010, ranked 84th out of 163 countries^[4]

General

• United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Index, 2010, ranked 82nd out of 169 countries
• KOF Swiss Economic Institute: Globalization Index, 2011, 38th out of 156 countries in 2008^[5]

Political

• Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index 2010, ranked 50th out of 178 countries
• Reporters Without Borders: Worldwide press freedom index 2010, ranked 120th out of 178 countries
• Freedom House: Freedom in the World, 2010, ranked 5th out of 18 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, "not free"

Social

• Economist Intelligence Unit: Quality-of-life index, 2005, ranked 72nd out of 108 countries
• Institute for Economics and Peace:^[6] Global Peace Index, 2011, 64th out of 153 countries

Technological

• Economist Intelligence Unit e-readiness, 2009, ranked 50th out of 70 countries

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