AMMAN — The number of enterprises owned entirely by
women and registered with the Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) reached 2,761 in
2021, or 12.2 percent of the total 22,692 individual ACC-registered entities in
the same year, while men owned 19,931 businesses the Jordan News Agency, Petra,
reported.
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The 12.2 percentage
is up from 10.7 percent in 2013, showing a cumulative 1.8 percent growth rate.
Women-owned
businesses focused on a number of sectors, including 978 foodstuff companies in
2021, up from 825 in 2013, while the number of garment and jewelry sector enterprises
reached 466 last year, the report showed.
The remaining
companies in 2021 covered 383 home and office furniture and stationery
enterprises, 321 services and consulting businesses, 207 health,
pharmaceuticals, and supplies sector establishments, figures revealed.
Women owned 139
communications and information technology companies, 116 construction and
building materials businesses, and 94 operated in automotive, heavy machinery
and accessories sector, according to the statistics.
In addition,
they owned 55 enterprises in the electricity sector, in addition to two
companies in the financial and banking industry.
The capital of
individual institutions grew during the 2013–2021 period at a cumulative rate
of 0.6 percent per annum, as the proportion of the capital of women-owned
businesses out of that of the total ACC-registered capital institutions for
2021 stood at about 9.9 percent, compared with 9.5 percent in 2013.
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