Germany has long enjoyed close and friendly political relations with Jordan. Diplomatic relations date back over 70 years, with frequent reciprocal diplomatic visits continuing in recent months. Germany is the country’s second-largest bilateral donor, behind the United States, and one of its most important partners in many fields. Jordan is widely considered an anchor of stability in the region. Bundeswehr units have been stationed in Jordan since October 2017 as part of the Global Coalition against Daesh.

Germany is one of Jordan’s prime trading partners, along with the US, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and China. In 2025, German exports to Jordan amounted to 899.3 million euros, and German imports from Jordan to 134.5 million euros. An EU-Jordan Free Trade Area has been in place since the entry into force of the Association Agreement with the EU in May 2002. The first EU-Jordan Investment Conference will take place in Jordan in April 2026.

Jordan, which has a total population of some 11.5 million people, is one of the most important host countries in the region with around three million refugees, approximately 25 percent of its population. Some 436,000 refugees in Jordan are currently registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Even after the return home of around 180,000 Syrian refugees since the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024, about 410,000 of these refugees are from Syria. In addition, around 2.4 million Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA live in Jordan. The German Government’s humanitarian assistance focuses on food aid, safeguarding/counselling and health.

Jordan is one of the world’s poorest countries in terms of the available water resources per capita. Development cooperation thus focuses on improving the water sector. Further priorities are in the fields of education/professional training, employment and administrative reforms.

A bilateral cultural agreement has been in place since 1982. In addition to language classes, the Goethe-Institut in Amman provides a wide-ranging intercultural programme, with opportunities for people to meet. The German Jordanian University (GJU), which was opened in 2005, is Germany’s largest university export project in Jordan. Its focus is on engineering subjects and business studies. Teaching and curricula at this Jordanian public university are modelled on those of German universities of applied sciences. As part of the Schools: Partners for the Future initiative (PASCH), German is taught as a foreign language at six schools in Jordan.

Germany and Jordan have been cooperating closely for many decades in the field of archaeology. A branch of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (GPIA), which is a research unit of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), coordinates joint excavations with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan.