Young people’s sexual and reproductive health in Jordan: Evidence from the GAGE endline

Jordan has a young and rapidly growing population. Nearly one-third of residents are young people aged 10–24 years, and the population has nearly doubled since 2010, albeit in part due to the influx of Syrians fleeing that country’s civil war (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2025). Although Jordan boasts an advanced health care system, has committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which include prioritising sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and has a government agency (the Higher Population Council, HPC) whose mandate is to improve reproductive health, its 2020–2030 National Strategy on Reproductive and Sexual Health acknowledges that young people have extremely limited access to SRH information and services, because the topic is seen as taboo (HPC, n.d.). Indeed, Sachs et al. (2024) report that the country is not on target to achieve its SRH targets under the SDGs.

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Presler-Marshall, E., Luckenbill, S., Jones, N., Alheiwidi, S., Baird, S., Leung, S., … and Shareef, Q. (2025) Young people’s sexual and reproductive health in Jordan: evidence from the GAGE endline. Report. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (gage.odi.org/young-people-s-sexual-and-reproductive-health-in-jordan-evidence-from-the-gage-endline)