AMMAN – Jordan’s
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
grew by 2.6 percent in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the same period
last year.
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The
Department of Statistics' (DoS) quarterly
report released on Monday indicated that the GDP at constant market prices
(adjusted for inflation) edged up by 2.7 percent during the first half of the
current year compared to the same period of last year, the Jordan News Agency,
Petra reported.
Preliminary data showed that all economic sectors
have grown during the same time frame, the DoS revealed.
Meanwhile, the agriculture, hunting, forestry,
and
fishing sector achieved the highest growth rate of 8.2 percent, followed by
the transportation, storage, and communications sector at 5.2 percent, the
extractive industries sector at 4.3 percent and the transformative
industries sector at 3.7 percent.
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