AMMAN — The third quarter 2021 report on
the unemployment rates in Jordan issued by the
Department of Statistics showed
a decrease in unemployment rates compared to the second quarter of 2021, Ammon
News said quoting
Sisterhood is Global Institute Jordan.
اضافة اعلان
According to SIGI, the unemployment rates in Jordan
in the third quarter of 2021 decreased to 30.8 percent among females and 21.2
percent among males, compared to the second quarter of 2021, when they were
33.1 percent among females and 22.7 percent among males.
Jordanian women
made up 14.5 percent of the labor force in the third quarter of 2021, while it
constituted 13.9 percent of the labor force in the second quarter of 2021.
By the end of 2020, the estimated population of
Jordan stood at 10.806 million, 5.084 million of which were females and 5.722
million males. Females aged 15 and above numbered 3.276 million that year. The
number of women who were economically active in the third quarter of 2021 stood
at 475,020, while it stood at 455,364 in the second quarter of 2021.
The unemployment rate among women reached its
highest levels in 1993, at 36.7 percent, while the lowest was recorded in 2004,
at 16.5 percent.
The difficult conditions brought about by the
COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020 had a significant negative impact
on both male and female workers in general, and more so on those in the
informal sector and day laborers. The pandemic also affected many small- and
medium-size enterprises, resulting in job losses and total or partial
disruption of economic activity, in no small measure due to the precautionary
measures taken by Jordan, which began to wane gradually.
The proportion of unemployed women holding a
bachelor’s degree is 82.1 percent, while among men with the same qualification,
the figure stands at 27.72 percent.
According to SIGI, out of every 100 women above the age of
15 in Jordan, 86 are economically inactive, nine are working women and five are
unemployed.
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