Unemployment / Jordan
Jordan Unemployment
Jordan unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 16.54%.
COUNTRY: Jordan
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Jordan · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
57 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
12.9 / 20
External stability
5.0 / 15
Financial robustness
13.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Jordan · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
16.54%
Previous
16.69%
Range avg.
17.56%
Rank
4
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CountryJordan
IndicatorUnemployment
16.54%2025 · Rank 4
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Jordan recorded 16.54% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.16 percentage points, from 16.69% to 16.54%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (17.56%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 15.28% in 2016 and the high was 19.84% in 2021.
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