Jordan+-+Economy

= Economy- =


 * == **Jordan is a small country with limited natural resources.** ==
 * == **it has improved much since its inception as a country** ==
 * == **Its current GDP per capital soared by 351% in the Seventies** ==
 * == **But that growth soon constantly shrank by 30% in the Eighties** ==
 * == **It then rebounded with growth by 36% in the Nineties** ==
 * == **About 10% of its land is arable** ==
 * == **That 10% although arable is effected by the limited water supply** ==
 * == **Rainfall is low and highly variable** ==
 * == **Jordan's resources center on phosphates and potash** ==
 * == **Jordan used to depend on Iraq for oil until the Iraq invasion of 2003 by the united states** ==
 * == **Jordan is ruled by a king, a king named King Abdullah II** ==
 * == **He came to the throne in 1999** ==
 * == **Jordan has more free trade agreements than any other Arab country** ==