18.7% The unemployment rate in Jordan during the second quarter of this year

Media Amman / Amman 3 September

The unemployment rate in the second quarter of this year was 18.7 percent, up by 0.7 percentage points from the second quarter of 2017. The unemployment rate for males during the measurement period was 16.6 percent compared to 26.8 percent for females, The unemployment rate for males is 2.3 percentage points and the female decline by 7.1 percentage points compared to the second quarter of 2017.