st.)
GDP real growth rate: 6.5% (1995 est.)
GDP per capita: $4,700 (1995 est.)
GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 11%
industry: 25%
services: 64% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (1995 est.)
Labor force: 600,000 (1992)
by occupation: industry 11.4%, commerce, restaurants, and hotels
10.5%, construction 10.0%, transport and communications 8.7%,
agriculture 7.4%, other services 52.0% (1992)
Unemployment rate: 16% (1994 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $2.5 billion
expenditures: $2.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $640
million (1996 est.)
Industries: phosphate mining, petroleum refining, cement, potash,
light manufacturing
Industrial production growth rate: 5.6% (1994 est.)
Electricity:
capacity: 1,050,000 kW
production: 4.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,072 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: wheat, barley, citrus, tomatoes, melons, olives;
sheep, goats, poultry
Exports: $1.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: phosphates, fertilizers, potash, agricultural products,
manufactures
partners: India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, EU, Indonesia, UAE
Imports: $3.8 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: crude oil, machinery, transport equipment, food, live
animals, manufactured goods
partners: EU, US, Iraq, Japan, Turkey
External debt: $6.9 billion (1995 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $238 million (1993)
Currency: 1 Jordanian dinar (JD) = 1,000 fils
Exchange rates: Jordanian dinars (JD) per US$1 - 0.7090 (January
1996), 0.7005 (1995), 0.6987 (1994), 0.6928 (1993), 0.6797 (1992),
0.6808 (1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Transportation
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Railways:
total: 676 km
narrow gauge: 676 km 1.050-m gauge; note - an additional 110 km
stretch of the old Hedjaz railroad is out of use
Highways:
total: 5,680 km
paved: 5,680 km (including 1,712 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1991 est.)
Pipelines: crude oil 209 km
Ports: Al'Aqabah
Merchant marine:
total: 3 bulk ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 41,960 GRT/67,515
DWT (1995 est.)
Airports:
total: 14
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 10
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 1 (1995 est.)
Communications
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Telephones: 81,500 (1987 est.)
Telephone system: adequate telephone system
domestic: microwave radio relay, cable, and radiotelephone links
international: satelli
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