EnglishThe monthly report issued by the Department of Statistics indicates a decrease in the General Industrial Production Quantities for Apr 2018 to reach 87.0 against 93.3 for the same month of 2017 recorded a decrease by 6.8% .This mainly was a result of a decrease in the production quantities of the manufacturing Industries index by 6.41 percentage points with a relative importance of 86.0% and the quantities of quarrying [...]
The monthly report issued by the Department of Statistics indicates an increase in the General Industrial price index for April 2018 to reach 118.50 against 112.19 for the same month of 2017 recorded a growth by 5.6% compared with the same month of 2017. This mainly was a result of an increase in the manufacturing Industries prices by 4.66 percentage points with a relative importance of 86.0%, the quarrying industries prices by 1.13 percentage points with a relative [...]
The monthly report on inflation in Jordan issued by the Department of Statistics indicates that the Consumer Price Average (Inflation) reached 124.9 in May 2018 against 118.9 during May 2017 recorded an increase by 5.1%.The main commodities groups, which contributed to this increase, were “Transport” 1.50 percentage points, “Cereals and its Products” 1.09 percentage points, “Tobacco and cigarettes” 0.62% percentage points, “Meats and Poultry” 0.43 percentage points and “rents” [...]
The data issued by the Department of Statistics indicates a decrease in the Average Agricultural Producers’ Price Index for April 2018 by (14.5%) compared with April 2017. (The Price Index reached 102.6 in April 2018 compared with 120.0 in April 2017).The most significant crops that contributed to this decrease were tomatoes (79.2%), potato (27.5%), watermelon (28.7%), cherries (45.5%), humous (40.5%), humous grain (40.8%), green almond (51.0%), green sweet pepper (50.7%), cantaloupe (34.8%) and apricot (55.2%).( the total of their relative [...]
The Department of Statistics issued its quarterly report on the Unemployment Rate of 2018: The following are the main results of this survey: Unemployment: The results show that the Unemployment Rate has reached (18.4%) during the first quarter of 2018 ; representing an increase by 0.2 percentage points of the first quarter 2017. the Unemployment Rate for males has reached (16.0% ) during the first quarter of 2018 against (27.8%) for females. it becomes clear that the Unemployment Rate has [...]
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