Unemployment rates in the Kingdom during the second quarter of 2022 stood at 22.6 percent, down by 2.2 percent compared to the same period of 2021.
According to the Department of Statistics monthly report issued Wednesday, the percentage of unemployed males amounted to 20.7, down 2 percent, against 29.4 percent of females, down 3.7 percent.
In 2022, unemployment rates among males in the second quarter increased by 0.2 percent compared to the first quarter, while a decrease of 2.1 percent was recorded among females.
Compared to other educational levels, the unemployment rate among university degree holders (unemployed persons with a bachelor’s degree or higher divided by the labor force of the same educational qualification) increased to 26.2 percent.
According to the findings, 53.5 percent of the overall jobless held secondary school diplomas or higher, while 46.2 percent had educational credentials lower than secondary school.
Unemployment rates differed by educational level and gender, with 25.5 percent of unemployed males holding a bachelor’s degree or higher compared to 78.9 percent of unemployed females.
At the governorate level, the Tafilah governorate had the highest unemployment rate of 27 percent, while the capital, Amman, had the lowest unemployment rate of 20.5 percent.
The employed proportion of the total population aged 15 and older was 26 percent, with 58.8 percent of male employees in the age range 20-39 years and 60.4 percent of female workers in the age group 20-39 years.
The findings revealed a considerable disparity in the distribution of the workforce by educational level and gender, with 59 percent of the entire male labor force having less than secondary education, compared to 11 percent for females.
The findings also indicated that 71.8 percent of the overall female workforce held a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 24.7 percent among males.
For the second quarter of this year, the revised economic participation rate (the labor force attributed to the population 15 years and older) was 33.5 percent (53.2 percent for males versus 14.2 percent for females), compared to 33.7 percent (53.4 percent for males and 13.9 percent for females) for the same quarter last year.
Source: Jordan News Agency