AMMAN — Jordan will celebrates Labor Day,
which is observed on May 1 every year, at a time when the unemployment rate in
the Kingdom stands at 23.3 percent, mostly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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According to the Department of Statistics (DoS), the
unemployment rate in Jordan during the fourth quarter of last year stood at
23.3 percent, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the third quarter of the
same year, and a decrease of 1.4 percentage points from the fourth quarter of
2020.
The unemployment rate among men during the fourth
quarter of 2021 stood at 21.4 percent, compared to 30.7 percent for women. In
the case of men, the unemployment rate had decreased by 1.2 percentage points
compared to the fourth quarter of 2020; among women, it had decreased by 2.1
percentage points.
In 2021, the unemployment rate for men increased by
0.2 percentage points, and decreased by 0.1 percentage point for women.
The figures also show that the unemployment rate was
high among university degree holders (unemployed individuals who hold a
bachelor’s degree or higher divided by the labor force for the same educational
qualification), reaching 27.2 percent.
According to the report, 52.4 percent of the total
number of the unemployed were holders of secondary school certificates and
above, while 47.0 percent of the total unemployed had educational
qualifications below secondary level.
The percentage of
unemployed varied according to educational level of genders: unemployment among
men holding a bachelor’s degree or higher was 26.0 percent, while among women
with the same degree, it stood at 79.2 percent. Unemployment among youngsters
in the age group 15-24 stood at 52.1 percent of the total (47.9 percent among males
and 70.2 percent among females).
At governorate level, the highest unemployment rate
was recorded in Maan governorate, with a rate of 28.1 percent, and the lowest
unemployment in Ajloun governorate, at 18.5 percent.
Other statistics were issued by DoS as well.
The economic participation of Jordanian women is
still below the desired level, as the revised economic participation rate (the
number of economically active women aged 15 years and over divided by the
number of women aged 15 years and over) for Jordanian women reached 14 percent
in 2021.
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