{"id":389681,"date":"2025-06-02T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=389681"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:47:54","slug":"jordan-unemployment-down-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/jordan-unemployment-down-slightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: unemployment down slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Unemployment was down 0.1% year-on-year in Jordan in the first quarter of this year, with 21.3% of the economically active population unemployed. According to Jordan <a href=\"https:\/\/dosweb.dos.gov.jo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Statistics<\/a> figures made public by the state-run news agency Petra, unemployment decreased by 1.5% in the country in the past three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first quarter of this year, 18.6% of men and 31.2% of women in Jordan had no jobs, according to a Department of Statistics survey. Besides women, young people are one of the worst-hit demographics in the Arab Levant country: 31% of workers up to 23 years of age were jobless in the first quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of expatriates in the Jordanian labor force also decreased, from 44.7% in Q1 2024 to 44$ in Q1 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mission-takes-brazilian-companies-to-jordan\/\">Mission takes Brazilian companies to Jordan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-389669\">\u00a9Khalil Mazraawi\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter of the year, 21.3% of Jordanians were unemployed, according to information from the Department of Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":389669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[9537,53403,6190,2347,2354],"class_list":{"0":"post-389681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-jordan-en","9":"tag-male","10":"tag-statistics","11":"tag-unemployment","12":"tag-women"},"wps_subtitle":"In the first quarter of the year, 21.3% of Jordanians were unemployed, according to information from the Department of Statistics.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}