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Jordan — National Projects Tracker
Every government-led project reshaping Jordan's development map, graded by how much evidence exists that it is actually happening - and translated into where the land opportunity sits. Verified 30 August 2026.
Projects in the register
23
Verified as at 30 August 2026
9 sectors, 8 governorates
Funded and building
6
Financing disclosed AND works verified on site
26% of the register
Procurement live
3
Adviser mandated or a tender in the market
Bidders named on one of the three
Disclosed capital
$14.6bn
Across the 16 projects that publish a figure
7 publish none at all
Of that, funded or awarded
$6.1bn
Grades A and B only
$8.4bn is not yet funded
Median slip
6.7 years
Announcement to the stated milestone
7 projects flagged for no recent progress
The evidence picture
Every row is graded by what can actually be verified, not by what has been announced. The grades are defined at the foot of the page.
Projects and capital by evidence grade
Count of projects against the capital each grade accounts for
Where the disclosed capital sits
Funded means grades A and B only · US$ million
How to read these two. The left chart counts projects and traces the money beside them; the right chart splits that money by sector. Only $6.1bn of the $14.6bn on the page is at grade A or B — that is 42% of the disclosed capital, leaving $8.4bn announced but not yet funded. 7 of the 23 projects publish no cost figure at all, so the totals here understate the pipeline and are a floor, not a measure of its size. Capital is charted in US dollars; dinar figures are converted at the peg of JD 0.709 to the dollar, and each row states the currency and the kind of figure it is.
An estimate, a contract value and a financing package are three different things. The register records which each figure is, and never prints one as another. Where sources disagree — the water carrier is reported at $4.3bn, $5.8bn, $6bn and €6.1bn; Arab Potash at $1.1bn and $1.5bn — both figures are kept with both sources rather than averaged into a false precision.
What “imminent” has meant in Jordan
Dated gaps between an announcement or a stated target and what has actually happened. This is the timing evidence the register produces as a by-product.
Announcement to the stated milestone
Years · green marks the ones that arrived
Where the pipeline touches ground
Projects by governorate · a project crossing five counts in each
| Project | Announced or targeted | What actually happened | Gap | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ma'an dry port | Planned early 2000s | Revived Apr 2026, 'initiating studies' | 20.0 yrs | Approximate start date; the source says dormant for more than twenty years. |
| Amman-Zarqa light rail | Tender planned 2010 | Feasibility done May 2026 | 16.4 yrs | The 2009 consortium was terminated; the 2010 tender never ran. |
| Marsa Zayed | Launched 2009 | Foundation stone Feb 2025 | 15.6 yrs | Phase 2 was on hold from 2018 pending a port relocation that had not happened. |
| 15-school PPP | Launched Sep 2019 | Bids submitted Jun 2023, silent since | 6.9 yrs | Reached bids received, then stopped. No award and no cancellation has ever been published. |
| Amman-Zarqa BRT | Service expected 2018 | Opened May 2024 | 6.4 yrs | The control case. It slipped six years and it DID deliver. |
| Amman BRT Phase 2 | World Bank disclosure Feb 2021 | Still 'proposed' | 5.5 yrs | No financing approved in five and a half years. |
| National Water Carrier | Financial close targeted end-2024 | Not closed at Aug 2026 | 1.7 yrs | A second target of July 2026 was also missed. |
| Aqaba railway | Investment pacts Sep 2024 | Definitive agreements Apr 2026 | 1.6 yrs | A milestone reached, not a project delivered. Financial close is targeted for early 2027. |
What this says. The median gap across these cases is 6.7 years. The pattern is not that Jordanian mega-projects fail — the Amman–Zarqa BRT slipped 6.4 years past its target and then opened, and it carries passengers today. The pattern is that they arrive around half a decade after the market prices them in. For a land position that gap is the whole question, and it is only visible because someone keeps the dated record. What would change this: a financial close on the water carrier, or an award on the Amman Bridge, would be the first evidence in years that the cycle is shortening.
The register
Filter it with the buttons above. Every claim carries its sources and the date it was last verified; a row with no confirmed progress in 6 months is flagged in place.
Register
| Project | Grade | Sector | Capital | Where | Evidence position | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Risha gas field developmentتطوير حقل الريشة الغازي | A · Building | Energy | $650m$550-750m development programme Development programme, sponsor-disclosed | MafraqEastern desert, near the Iraq border | Concession extended 15 years to 2061 by Cabinet. JD87m of government funding committed across 2026-28. Output has risen from about 17 to 80-90 MMcf/d. Central gas terminal agreement signed July 2026, operations expected early 2027. Land relevance. Anchors eastern industrial and data-centre load; the gas supply behind the announced AI campus.Financing. Government of Jordan JD87m committed; National Petroleum Company balance from own resourcesSources. Petra, Cabinet extends Risha concession (2026-06) · Petra, central gas terminal agreement (2026-07) · AGBI, Jordan steps up gas field development (2026-03) | 30 August 2026 |
| Kingdom Health Campusمجمع المملكة الصحي | A · Building | Health | $400m$400m Sponsor investment programme | AmmanGhamadan, Airport Road corridor | Saudi PIF through the Saudi Jordanian Investment Company. 330-bed university hospital, 72 outpatient clinics, a health-sciences university and five centres of excellence. Under construction; 110,000+ sq m with land reserved for a 50% hospital expansion. no confirmed progress since 22 July 2024Land relevance. The strongest private health anchor in the country, on the Airport Road corridor. Sponsor-financed, NOT a procured PPP - do not model it as availability payment.Financing. Saudi Public Investment Fund via SJIC $400m sponsor equitySources. SJIF, foundation stone for the Kingdom Health project (2023-10) · Zawya, Kingdom Health unveils architectural design (2024-07) | 30 August 2026 |
| Aqaba Container Terminal expansionتوسعة محطة حاويات العقبة | A · Building | Logistics | $242m$242m Committed investment against a concession extension | AqabaPort of Aqaba | APM Terminals investment agreed October 2024 in exchange for a 15-year concession extension to 2046. Works started Q1 2025; capacity rising from 1.3m to 1.7m TEU before 2031. no confirmed progress since 1 January 2025Land relevance. Port-adjacent logistics land; the throughput side of the Aqaba corridor.Financing. APM Terminals $242mSources. Global Construction Review, APM Terminals to invest in Aqaba (2024-10) | 30 August 2026 |
| Madaba Public Hospitalمستشفى مادبا الحكومي | A · Building | Health | $124mJD88m ($124m) Contract value at signature | MadabaMa'in, Madaba | Jordan's FIRST government hospital PPP. Build-lease-transfer with KBW Investments; contract signed July 2025, foundation stone August 2025, phase 1 complete by June 2026. 13 floors, 54,000+ sq m, 260 beds expandable to 360. Due 2028; government repays in instalments over 10 years after completion. Land relevance. The precedent transaction. Proves a replicable model for an unmet Ministry of Health pipeline.Financing. KBW Investments builds under BLT; Jordan Investment Fund financing vehicle; Government of Jordan 10-year post-completion instalmentsSources. Jordan Times, Govt and KBW sign JD133m deal (2025-07) · Petra, Ministers review progress on first PPP government hospital (2026-06) | 30 August 2026 |
| Aqaba Multipurpose Port concessionميناء العقبة متعدد الأغراض | A · Building | Logistics | $38mAED141m ($38.4m) joint-venture investment Contracted JV investment | AqabaPort of Aqaba | 30-year concession signed February 2026, AD Ports Group 70% with Aqaba Development Corporation 30%. Formal operations commence August 2026. Nine berths, 2 km of quay, 11 Mt/yr capacity. Land relevance. The same operator also manages the Al Madouneh customs centre near Amman - one party at both ends of the planned rail corridor.Financing. AD Ports Group 70% equity; Aqaba Development Corporation 30% equitySources. AD Ports Group, 30-year agreement with ADC (2026-02) | 30 August 2026 |
| Aqaba Digital Hubمركز العقبة الرقمي | A · Building | Digital | $14mJD10m ($14.1m) expansion facility Signed loan facility | AqabaAqaba | Operating since October 2025. Jordan's largest Tier 3 carrier-neutral data centre at 12 MW and about 17,000 sq m, and its first marine cable landing station. EBRD loan with Capital Bank of Jordan as parallel lender, backed by an EU guarantee, funds a second hall. Land relevance. The only verified digital-infrastructure anchor in the country; four subsea cables land or connect here.Financing. EBRD JD10m / $14.1m; Capital Bank of Jordan parallel lender, amount not disclosed; EU EFSD+ guarantee first-loss, amount not disclosedSources. EBRD, EBRD and EU support growth of Aqaba Digital Hub (2026-05) · Zawya, Crown Prince inaugurates Aqaba Digital Hub (2025-10) | 30 August 2026 |
| National Water Carrier (Aqaba-Amman)مشروع الناقل الوطني للمياه | B · Awarded | Water | $4.3bn$4.3bn capital cost; $5.8-6bn including financing costs Capital cost; the higher figures include financing | Aqaba, Ma'an, Tafila, Karak, Amman438-450 km from the Red Sea to Amman, following the existing Disi conveyance alignment | Five multilateral institutions have approved facilities and financial close has STILL not been reached, having been targeted for end-2024 and again for July 2026. Final technical and legal agreement signed April 2026. Construction now stated for Q4 2026, first water Q4 2030. 300 MCM/yr - 250 to Amman, 50 to Aqaba - plus a 281 MWp solar plant. Land relevance. THE binding constraint on Jordanian development. The corridor crosses five governorates along an existing pipeline route.Financing. EBRD $475m; IFC up to $375m; EIB EUR 427m signed; AIIB $250m; MIGA $1.25bn guarantee; Arab Fund KD58m / ~$189m; AFD $97m; Grants (US, EU, DE, NL, UK, FR, IT, JP) $663m; Jordanian bank consortium $1.1bn; Government of Jordan $722mSources. EBRD project summary 53620 (2026-02) · IFC disclosure 47924 (2026-02) · AIIB project page, AAWDCP (2026-03) · EIB project 20190712 (2025-07) · Jordan Times, construction to begin late 2026 (2026-07) · AGBI, Jordan secures French funding (2026-07) | 30 August 2026 |
| Amra Cityمدينة عمرة | B · Awarded | Urban development | $381mNo total published. JD270m ($381m) costed across three phase-1 flagships Government estimates for three components only | AmmanAbout 40 km east of Amman, in Muwaqqar lands | 500 sq km total, 40 sq km phase 1, launched November 2025. On the ground after nine months: site levelling, access roads, and stadium excavation from 14 June 2026 - main stadium construction is not due to start until early 2027. Amusement-city design and feasibility contract awarded June 2026. No total capital cost has ever been published. Land relevance. The largest land question in the country. State land valued at JD3,000-8,000 per dunum; SSIF transacted at about JD3,070. The model is joint venture with the state company retaining a minimum 51% - explicitly NOT land sales.Financing. Social Security Investment Fund JD172m for 56,000 dunums; Jordan Investment Fund state land transferred in; Private investors seven letters of interest, none namedSources. Jordan Times, PM unveils Amra City project (2025-11) · Ammon News, SSIF land purchase JD172m (2025-12) · Almamlaka, Mheidat on terms and valuation (2026-02) · Madar Al-Saa, stadium excavation begins (2026-06) · Petra, Amra City to stimulate 50 sectors (2026-04) | 30 August 2026 |
| Marsa Zayedمرسى زايد | B · Awarded | Urban development | not publishedNot published for the revived scheme The $10bn figure is the 2009 announcement and is not live | AqabaAqaba waterfront, 3.2m sq m | Announced 2009, phase 2 on hold from 2018 pending port relocation, foundation stone for phase 1 laid February 2025 under MAG Group for AD Ports. Phase 1: four residential towers, 1,260 units, a 360-room hotel and 117 retail units. No completion date published. no confirmed progress since 1 February 2025Land relevance. Direct residential and hospitality comparables for Aqaba. Still contingent on the port relocation that stalled it for fifteen years.Financing. MAG Group Holding developer; AD Ports Group principalSources. Jordan Times, PM lays foundation stone for Marsa Zayed phase one (2025-02) · AD Ports Group (2026-02) | 30 August 2026 |
| Abu Khushaiba copper projectمشروع النحاس أبو خشيبة | B · Awarded | Mining | not publishedNot disclosed No cost published | AqabaWadi Araba, 48-66 sq km concession | Jordan's first copper exploration and development concession, granted December 2025 to Wadi Araba Minerals. Drilling contracted to a Saudi firm; preliminary civil works started on an ore-processing plant. Processing capacity of 1,000-3,000 t/yr of raw ore is PILOT SCALE, not a mine development. Land relevance. Limited near-term land effect at pilot scale. Watch for a move to commercial capacity.Financing. Wadi Araba Minerals Company (Solvest) concessionaireSources. Zawya, Abu Khushaiba advances with drilling and training pacts (2026-06) · Jordan Times, Cabinet approves copper mining agreement (2025-12) | 30 August 2026 |
| Aqaba Port Railwayمشروع سكة حديد ميناء العقبة | C · Signed | Transport | $2.3bn$2.3bn JV envelope; the government's transport portfolio lists JD1.77bn ($2.5bn) Equity and development envelope, not a construction contract | Aqaba, Ma'an, Karak360 km: Shidiya phosphate and Ghor Al-Safi potash to the Port of Aqaba | Definitive development and shareholders' agreements signed 15 April 2026 for a 50:50 Jordanian-Emirati JV. NO multilateral lender has a project page for it and no construction contractor is appointed. Financial close targeted early 2027, then about five years of construction. Capacity about 16 Mt/yr. Land relevance. Phase 2 runs north to Madounah near Amman and on toward Syria and the GCC. That corridor, not the mining spur, is the real-estate story.Financing. Jordanian sovereign and industrial entities 50% equity; Emirati partner 50% equitySources. Petra, Jordan and UAE launch $2.3bn Aqaba railway (2026-04) · Railway-News (2026-04) · A&O Shearman, JV legal work (2026-06) | 30 August 2026 |
| Amman Bridge (ATB)مشروع جسر عمان | D · Tendering | Transport | $652mJD462m ($652m) in the government's transport portfolio; JD562m capex plus JD56m opex reported elsewhere Government portfolio figure; the Ministry of Investment has never published one | Amman15.8 km elevated, within the King Abdullah II Street right-of-way, Sweileh/Safout to Naour | THE MOST ADVANCED PPP IN THE COUNTRY. RFQ issued 12 March 2026, international briefing drew about 110 participants, submissions closed 12 May, and FOUR consortia were prequalified on 9 July 2026 - including Meridiam, China First Highway Engineering, Orascom and The Arab Contractors. The RFP has not yet been issued and nothing has been published since. Land relevance. Western Amman's main corridor: two lanes each way plus a dedicated BRT lane and 13 stations, roughly one per kilometre, past King Hussein Medical City and King Hussein Business Park. The highest-value catchment in the register.Financing. Private toll revenue under DBFOMT no lenders disclosedSources. Petra, Ministry of Investment launches the Amman Bridge project (2026-03) · PPP Unit, prequalified applicant list (2026-07) · AGBI, Jordan seeks PPP investors for first elevated motorway (2026-04) · Al Mamlaka, transport portfolio JD3.47bn (2026-01) | 30 August 2026 |
| 41 Government Schools PPPمشروع 41 مدرسة حكومية | D · Tendering | Education | $46mJD33m ($46.5m) for phase 1 of eight schools; no total published for all 41 Government announcement for phase 1 only | All governoratesNationwide; 25 of 41 sites confirmed | MoPIC and the Ministry of Investment signed a EUR 1.5m advisory agreement with EBRD in November 2025 to structure a PPP for 41 schools, phased from an initial eight. RFP pending; no RFQ has been issued. IFC is NOT involved this time. no confirmed progress since 17 November 2025Land relevance. THE most actionable land datapoint in the register: 41 sites at 3,000-18,000 sq m each, and 16 of them are not yet selected. Site identification is the acquisition trigger.Financing. EBRD EUR 1.5m transaction advisorySources. MoPIC, agreement for public schools construction under PPP model (2025-11) · Jordan-EU Investment Conference platform (2026-01) · Nesan, eight schools JD33m 2026-2028 (2025-10) | 30 August 2026 |
| Jaber Border Crossing developmentتطوير مركز حدود جابر | D · Tendering | Logistics | not publishedNot published No cost published by any party | MafraqJaber crossing, Mafraq - Jordan's main northern gate to Syria | RFQ issued 18 June 2026 for a 30-year DBFOM concession including a three-year construction phase, with the crossing staying operational throughout. Information session 6 July; the RFQ deadline was extended on 19 July. No prequalification result has been announced. Land relevance. Scope includes new investment and residential buildings and staff dormitories, tied to a Mafraq Development Zone logistics hub.Financing. Private concession no lenders disclosedSources. Petra, Investment Ministry issues RFQ for Jaber Border Crossing (2026-06) · PPP Unit news and archived tenders (2026-07) | 30 August 2026 |
| JPMC and JIFCO fertiliser expansionتوسعات مناجم الفوسفات والأسمدة | E · Announced | Mining | $2.1bn$1.1bn JPMC pipeline plus about $1bn for JIFCO Company announcements; dinar and dollar figures do not reconcile across releases | Ma'an, AqabaShidiya mines and Aqaba industrial estate | A financially very strong company - JD1.6bn on deposit at end-2025 and zero debt - with a large announced programme and NO EPC award or financial close on any component. The JIFCO expansion is still in technical committee review of engineering designs. Land relevance. Aqaba industrial land and Shidiya workforce housing if the programme converts.Financing. JPMC own resources company holds JD1.6bn in depositsSources. Petra, JPMC targets $1.1bn expansion projects (2026-05) · Petra, $1bn JIFCO expansion (2026-07) | 30 August 2026 |
| Amman-Zarqa light railالقطار الخفيف عمان-الزرقاء | E · Announced | Transport | $1.4bnJD1bn ($1.41bn) for construction and operation Feasibility-stage estimate | Amman, Zarqa60 km on the historic Hejaz alignment | Economic feasibility completed May 2026 and detailed designs finalised. THIS PROJECT HAS ALREADY FAILED ONCE: the previous consortium's contract was terminated in April 2009, and the tender planned for 2010 and construction for January 2011 never happened. No procuring authority, tender process, funding or construction schedule has been named for the current cycle. Land relevance. The Zarqa corridor. Watch it; do not price it.Financing. Not disclosed no funding identifiedSources. Jordan News, Government completes economic feasibility study (2026-05) · MEED, Jordan to tender Amman-Zarqa light rail this year (2010-06) | 30 August 2026 |
| Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine expansionتوسعة البوتاس العربية | E · Announced | Mining | $1.1bn$1.1bn per the PM's review; $1.5bn per the chairman. Combined with Jordan Bromine, about $2bn Conflicting company and government estimates | KarakSouthern Dead Sea basin, Ghor Al-Safi | Plus 750,000 t/yr taking output toward 4m t/yr, on new salt pans across 28 sq km, with a three-year build to 2029. NO contract award, EPC or financing has been disclosed. A separate US assessment puts the target lower at 3.5-3.6m t by 2030. Land relevance. Southern Ghor industrial land and worker housing if it proceeds.Financing. Not disclosed no financing publishedSources. Petra, PM reviews $2bn expansion plans at Arab Potash (2026-04) · AGBI, Arab Potash plans big expansion (2026-06) | 30 August 2026 |
| Mujib pumped-storage hydro, 450 MWالتخزين المائي بالضخ - الموجب | E · Announced | Energy | $650m$650m (JD461m) Government estimate | KarakNear the Mujib Dam | Two reservoirs totalling 2.7m cubic metres, closed-loop with solar-powered pumping and about seven hours of storage. A feasibility study has been commenced; the expression of interest has NOT yet been issued. Carried in the Economic Modernisation Vision executive programme. Land relevance. Limited direct land effect; matters as grid firming for the eastern load.Financing. Not disclosed EOI not yet issuedSources. energynews.pro, Jordan sets $650m estimate for 450 MW pumped storage (2026-04) · Jordan News, government H1 2026 investment review (2026-08) | 30 August 2026 |
| Mindstream Al-Risha AI campusمجمع الريشة للذكاء الاصطناعي | E · Announced | Digital | not publishedNot disclosed No cost, no phase-1 capacity, no financing published | MafraqAdjacent to the Al-Risha gas field, eastern Jordan | A 400 MW target on 245 acres. EVERY substantive claim traces to company press releases; the specialist trade press noted the concept plan appears to be AI-generated and that the project's status remains unclear. The agreements signed to date are non-binding cooperation frameworks. No land title, permit, EPC contract, anchor tenant or financing. Only the gas supply agreement with the National Petroleum Company is independently corroborated. Land relevance. Treat as optionality, not pipeline. For scale: the country's entire operating flagship is 12 MW.Financing. Not disclosed no investors namedSources. Data Center Dynamics, Mindstream proposes 400MW gas-powered data center (2026-07) · PR Newswire, Mindstream expands Al-Risha ecosystem (2026-08) | 30 August 2026 |
| 500-school building programmeبرنامج بناء 500 مدرسة | E · Announced | Education | not publishedNot disclosed No budget published | All governoratesNationwide, no site list published | Announced to the Senate in April 2026: about 500 schools over four years to end two-shift schooling and cut reliance on rented buildings. NO budget, NO procurement vehicle, NO site list. NOT part of the Economic Modernisation Vision, contrary to how it is often reported. The funded reality is smaller and real: 86 schools completed in a year, four delivered in July 2026 for JD12.5m, and five technical schools approved at JD25m in August 2026. Land relevance. Underwriting benchmark from the delivered programme: about JD3.1m per school, about JD5m for a technical secondary.Financing. Ministry of Education budget unquantified; Royal Hashemite Court and US assistance fund specific schoolsSources. Nabaa Jordan, Education Minister to the Senate (2026-04) · Petra, Cabinet approves five new technical schools at JD25m (2026-08) · Petra, ministry completes four new school projects (2026-07) | 30 August 2026 |
| Amman Bus Rapid Transit Phase 2الباص السريع - المرحلة الثانية | F · Stalled | Transport | $150m$150m World Bank proposed lending amount | AmmanSouthern and western Amman | World Bank project P176451, disclosed February 2021 as a public-private partnership. STILL CARRIED AS 'PROPOSED' five and a half years later, with no financing approved. no confirmed progress since 24 February 2021Land relevance. A useful control: the same city's Phase 1 took six years past target and did deliver.Financing. World Bank $150m proposed, never approvedSources. World Bank project P176451 (2021-02) · PPIAF, Jordan Amman BRT Phase II | 30 August 2026 |
| Al-Bashir Hospital rehabilitationإعادة تأهيل مستشفى البشير | F · Stalled | Health | not publishedNot found No cost ever published | AmmanAmman | A comprehensive master-plan bidding process was announced in August 2023 as part of a 2,000-beds-in-seven-years plan. NOTHING SINCE. The project is absent from the government's own August 2026 healthcare round-up. Discrete small works at the site are separate projects. no confirmed progress since 28 August 2023Land relevance. Remove from any demand case until an award appears.Financing. Not found no financing identifiedSources. Jordan News, Health minister unveils Al-Bashir plan (2023-08) · Petra, Jordan expands healthcare capacity (2026-08) | 30 August 2026 |
| 15-school DBFOM PPPمشروع المدارس بالشراكة | F · Stalled | Education | not publishedNot found No cost ever published | Amman, Madaba, ZarqaAmman, Madaba and Zarqa | Launched September 2019 with IFC as transaction adviser and EBRD support; RFQ published February 2022 targeting commercial close in Q3 2022; six firms prequalified in March 2022; and a Meridiam-Edgo consortium SUBMITTED BIDS IN JUNE 2023. Then nothing. No award, no cancellation, no termination notice has ever been published - the tender simply sits in the PPP Unit archive. no confirmed progress since 1 June 2023Land relevance. The single most important due-diligence fact in the education file: a bid has been outstanding for over three years with no decision. Meridiam has since prequalified on the Amman Bridge.Financing. IFC and EBRD transaction advisersSources. PPP Unit archived tender, Jordan Schools PPP (2022-02) · Petra, six companies submit qualification bids (2022-03) · Resonance Advisory, Jordan Schools PPP (2023-06) | 30 August 2026 |
Approved is not closed
The single most instructive row in the register, and the reason the grade ladder separates lender approval from financial close.
National Water Carrier: approved facilities
US$ million by institution · coloured by instrument
Reading this chart
Each bar is money a named institution has approved for the Aqaba–Amman conveyance. Five multilateral institutions are on it — EBRD, IFC, EIB, AIIB and MIGA — alongside the Arab Fund, AFD, a Jordanian bank consortium and eight sovereign donors.
The colours matter: $2.5bn of it is senior debt, but the largest single bar is MIGA's guarantee, which is political-risk cover rather than money lent, and the grants are not repayable. Adding them into one headline number, as most coverage does, overstates what has actually been committed.
And none of it has closed. Financial close was targeted for end-2024, then for July 2026, and had not happened when this page was last verified. Construction is now stated for Q4 2026 and first water for Q4 2030.
EIB's €427m is deliberately absent from the chart: it is committed in euro and converting it would invent a rate the source never used.
The contrast worth holding. The Aqaba railway carries a $2.3bn headline, definitive agreements signed in April 2026 and comparable press prominence — and no multilateral lender has a project page for it, and no construction contractor is appointed. Same coverage, very different risk. That distinction is what this tracker exists to publish.
The asset-class lens
Data centres, healthcare and education read as panels inside this register rather than trackers of their own, because there is not enough published data to carry a series — and because the demand case for each of them is the pipeline above.
Hospital capacity by sector
Beds and hospitals · Department of Statistics Yearbook 2024
Healthcare
The private sector runs 70 of the country's 120 hospitals — more than twice the Ministry of Health's 32 — and still holds fewer beds: 5,648 against 6,059. Private hospitals are numerous and small.
That shape matters more once you add the demand side. Medical tourism earned about $1.0bn from 230,000 foreign patients in 2025, up 4% on the year, on a cumulative $4bn of private hospital investment. But 75% of those patients are treated in clinics and specialised centres, not hospitals.
So the demand is for medical-office space, not inpatient beds. No Jordanian source publishes clinic or hospital floorspace — counts and beds only, never square metres — so that gap has to be sized from the pipeline and the bed data rather than measured.
What to watch: whether the Madaba build-lease-transfer is repeated. It is the first government hospital PPP in the country and the Ministry of Health has an unmet pipeline behind it.
Digital infrastructure: operating against announced
Megawatts · drawn on one linear axis on purpose
Education: the announcement against the delivery
Schools · green is delivered, red is stalled
Both charts make the same point in different sectors. Jordan has 9 data-centre facilities in total, and the operating flagship at Aqaba is 12 MW. The announced AI campus at Al-Risha is 400 MW — 33 times the country's entire flagship — with no disclosed cost, financing, permit, land title or anchor tenant, and a concept plan the specialist trade press judged to be AI-generated. On the right, 500 schools have been announced over four years while 86 were actually completed in the past year and 41 are being structured as a PPP with an EBRD adviser. The delivered programme is smaller than the announcement and larger than nothing — which is the honest reading of most of this register.
The most actionable land datapoint on this page. The 41-school PPP needs sites of 3,000–18,000 sq m each, and 16 of the 41 have not yet been selected. Site identification is the acquisition trigger. Set against that: the previous 15-school PPP took bids from a Meridiam–Edgo consortium in June 2023 and has never been awarded or cancelled — it simply sits in the tender archive. Both facts belong in any view of Jordanian education PPP.
From a project to a land position
A register of projects is only half of it. This is the half no one else can publish: our own extraction of the Department of Lands basin data, asked whether the ground has already moved.
Muwaqqar land basins in the national top list
The same published January–July window, three years running
Where the corridor sits nationally
Best-selling land basins, Jul 2026 · green marks the Amra City catchment
What these show, and the correction they force. Amra City sits in Muwaqqar lands. Over the same January–July window, the number of Muwaqqar basins appearing in the Department of Lands' national top-selling list has gone from 1 in 2024 to 2 in 2025 to 3 in 2026, and the transactions inside them from 259 to 500 — up 93%. In the latest month published, 2 of the country's 8 best-selling land basins are in Muwaqqar.
But the corridor was already moving before the project existed. A Muwaqqar basin ranked 3rd nationally in 2024 on 385 transactions — a full year before Amra City was announced in November 2025. Anyone selling this as a project-driven land story has the causation backwards: the government put a new city where the market was already trading, and the announcement has so far accelerated an existing trend rather than created one.
What to watch: whether the 2027 window breaks the pattern in level rather than in count. More basins clearing the cut-off is partly a market widening; a sharp rise in transactions per basin would be the first real evidence of project-driven demand.
How to read a top-N list without fooling yourself. The Department of Lands publishes only the best-selling basins each period, so a basin that is absent is below the cut-off, not at zero — every figure above is a floor and the real Muwaqqar total is higher. Top-N lists also cannot be added across months, so only windows the Department itself published as covering periods are compared, and only like for like. Directorate is resolved from the Department's own village and basin coding file rather than by matching names: of the basins named on this page, 3 carry a name that occurs in more than one directorate (الشمالي appears in 4), so a name match would have put transactions in the wrong governorate.
How a project is graded
The ladder and the staleness rule are the method. They are published here rather than kept internal, because a grade a reader cannot audit is worth nothing.
A · Building
Funded and physically under way: a disclosed financing commitment AND verified works on site. The only grade that supports underwriting a completion date. (6 in the register)
B · Awarded
Contract, concession or lender approval in place; financing not complete. Lender board approval is NOT financial close. (4 in the register)
C · Signed
Definitive agreements signed between sponsors, no debt raised. Equity intent, not a funded project. (1 in the register)
D · Tendering
Procurement under way: a transaction adviser is mandated and/or an RFQ or RFP is in the market. A named bidder list is evidence; it is not an award. (3 in the register)
E · Announced
A cost figure or target exists; nothing contracted. Includes projects with completed designs. Most coverage stops here and presents it as more. (6 in the register)
F · Stalled
Announced, then no verified progress for 24 months or more. Assigned by the staleness rule below, not by editorial judgement. (3 in the register)
The staleness rule
A project with no verified update in 6 months is flagged in the register as having no confirmed progress since a stated date. At 24 months it is demoted to grade F automatically, on dates rather than judgement.
Official Jordanian sources announce freely and almost never retract, so without this rule a project that quietly stops keeps a healthy grade for ever — which is how every other project listing goes wrong.
One deliberate exception. Demotion does not apply to a project already at grade A or B. A construction site is a durable physical fact that generates little coverage for years, whereas an announced project going silent for two years is genuinely dead. The flag still applies to everything: 7 of the 23 rows carry it today.
What this tracker does not do
It does not forecast completion dates. The delivery calibration above gives a defensible window; the sponsor's own date is reported as the sponsor's date.
It does not reconcile conflicting figures. Where two credible sources disagree, both are printed with both attributions.
It does not treat a government listing as progress. A project appearing on an investment portal proves intent, not motion — which is why the ladder has a rung for procurement that is genuinely under way and a separate one for everything merely announced.
And it does not carry a project quietly. Three rows on this page exist specifically to record that nothing has happened: they are the most useful rows in the register.