AMMAN —
Jordan’s
unemployment rate fell by 2.2 percent in the first quarter of the
current year 2022, to 22.8 percent, compared to the same quarter of last year,
according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
In its quarterly
report on the unemployment rate, the
Department of Statistics said on Monday
that the unemployment rate among men stood at 20.5 percent in the first quarter
of this year, compared to 31.5 percent among women. Compared to the first
quarter of last year, the unemployment rate among men fell by 3.7 percentage
points while it grew by 3.0 percentage points among women.
Men unemployment
fell by 0.9 percentage points in the first quarter of this year compared to the
fourth quarter of last year, while unemployment among women rose by 0.8
percentage points.
The unemployment rate among university degree
holders went up to 26.6 percent; 52.3 percent of the overall jobless hold
secondary school diplomas or higher, while 47.1 percent have educational credentials
lower than secondary school. A gender breakdown of figures shows that 24.6
percent of men holding a bachelor’s degree or higher are unemployed, compared
to 78.7 percent women with similar degrees.
At governorate
level,
Mafraq Governorate has the highest unemployment rate, 28.7 percent,
while Zarqa Governorate has the lowest unemployment rate, 19.2 percent.
Of the total
population aged 15 and older, 25.7 percent is employed; of these, 59.4 percent
are men aged 20 to 39 years and 60.3 percent in the same age bracket are women.
There is considerable disparity in the distribution of the workforce by
educational level and gender, with 59.2 percent of the entire men labor force
having less than secondary education, compared to 11.1 percent among women; 71.2
percent of all the women in the workforce hold a bachelor’s degree or higher,
compared to 24.7 percent of the men.
In the first quarter of
this year, the revised
economic participation rate (the labor force attributed
to the population 15 years and older) stood at 33.2 percent (53.2 percent for
men versus 13.7 percent for women), compared to 34.5 percent (54.8 percent for
males and 14.0 percent for females) in the same quarter last year.
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