AMMAN — The overall unemployment rate in the Kingdom fell to 16.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2026, down 0.5 percentage points compared with the same period of 2025 and 2.3 percentage points compared with the first quarter of 2022, the Department of Statistics (DoS) said on Sunday.

 

The report showed that unemployment among Jordanian males stood at 17.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2026, a decrease of 0.7 percentage points year-on-year, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

 

It added that unemployment among Jordanians overall (males and females) declined by 1.7 percentage points over the past four years compared with the first quarter of 2022, while the rate among Jordanian males has dropped by 6.3 percentage points since 2021.

 

Among Jordanians aged 24 and above, the unemployment rate reached 17.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2026, including 14.4 per cent for males and 29 per cent for females.

 

For non-Jordanians in the same age group, the unemployment rate stood at 5.4 per cent, including 6 per cent for males and 3.4 per cent for females.

 

The unemployment rate for the male population (Jordanians and non-Jordanians combined) stood at 14.6 per cent during the first quarter of 2026, down 0.6 percentage points compared with the same quarter of 2025, but up 0.8 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2025.

 

The report also showed that unemployment among Jordanians aged 15 and above reached 21.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2026, down 0.2 percentage points from the first quarter of 2025 and 0.1 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2025.

 

Unemployment among Jordanian women stood at 32.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2026, down 2.1 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2025, but up 1.5 percentage points compared with the first quarter of 2025.

 

The report also showed that unemployment among non-Jordanians stood at 8.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2026.