Jordan Table of Contents Figure 5. Population of the East Bank
by Age and Sex, 1987 Source: Based on information from Jordan,
Department of Statistics, Statistical Yearbook, 1987, Amman,
1988, 18. Figure 6. United Nations Relief and Works Agency Camps
in Jordan, 1989 Source: Based on information from United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,
Jordan. Official Jordanian statistics gave a 1987 population
figure of 2,896,800 for the East Bank. A 1982 population of
2,399,300 thus indicated an annual growth rate of between 3.6
and 4 percent. United Nations statistics projected a peak in the
annual growth rate at 4.11 percent in the period from 1990 to
1995, followed by a steady decline to 2.88 percent in 2020.
Rapid development in the provision of health care services
during the 1970s and 1980s led to a decline in the crude death
rate from 17 per 1,000 population in 1965 to 7 per 1,000
population by 1986 (see Health and Welfare , this ch.). During
the same period, the infant mo