A little over half of Jordan’s households have bank accounts

AMMAN — More than half of Jordan’s households, 57 per cent, have bank accounts, the Department of Statistics (DoS) said on Thursday.

A DoS report on the 2017/2018 Survey of Population and Family Health showed that 70 per cent of rural families have bank accounts, while 56 per cent of urban households have bank accounts, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Meanwhile, 16 per cent of urban families have credit cards, compared with 9 per cent of rural families.

Of the urban families, 44 per cent own computers, compared with 29 per cent of rural households, while 41 per cent of urban families and 23 per cent of rural households own air conditioners.