In 2007 , there were up to 150,000 Assyrian Christians ; most are Eastern Aramaic speaking refugees from Iraq . Kurds number some 30,000 , and like the Assyrians , many are refugees from Iraq , Iran and Turkey . Descendants of Armenians that sought refuge in the Levant during the 1915 Armenian Genocide number approximately 5,000 persons , mainly residing in Amman . A small number of ethnic Mandeans also reside in Jordan , again mainly refugees from Iraq . Around 12,000 Iraqi Christians have sought refuge in Jordan after the Islamic State took the city of Mosul in 2014 . Several thousand Libyans , Yemenis and Sudanese have also sought asylum in Jordan to escape instability and violence in their respective countries . The 2015 Jordanian census recorded that there were 1,265,000 Syrians , 636,270 Egyptians , 634,182 Palestinians , 130,911 Iraqis , 31,163 Yemenis , 22,700 Libyans and 197,385 from other nationalities residing in the country
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