AMMAN —
About 23.3 percent of working-age
Jordanians were unemployed in the fourth
quarter of 2021, according to official figures released Monday, carried by the
Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
Despite a marginal
0.1 percent increase from the figure reported in the third quarter of the year,
the unemployment rate dropped by 1.4 percent from the figure reported in the
same period of 2020, the
Department of Statistics (DoS) said in a quarterly
statistical report.
Unemployment among
males in the reporting period stood at 21.4 percent against 30.7 percent for
females, dropping by 1.2 and 2.1 percent respectively, compared with the same
period in 2020. But when compared with the third quarter of 2021 figures, the
data indicate that male unemployment inched up by 0.2 percent while the number
of unemployed females slightly declined by 0.1 percent.
Also, unemployment
surged among university degree holders (calculated by dividing the number of
unemployed individuals holding a bachelor’s degree and higher by the number of
unemployed persons holding the same qualification), reaching 27.2 percent
compared to other educational levels.
The data indicated
that 52.4 percent of the total unemployed were holders of secondary school
certificates or higher, and that 47 percent of the total unemployed had
educational qualifications below high school.
At the governorate level,
the highest unemployment rate was recorded in Ma’an Governorate, at 28.1
percent, while the lowest unemployment rate was in Ajloun Governorate, at 18.5
percent.
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