The Performance of the Jordanian Economy in 2018: Facts and Figures

In 2018, Jordan has experienced multiple economic challenges due to the 2008 global financial crisis, this has been exacerbated by deteriorating economic performance in some countries that had historically strong trade relations with Jordan.

Public finance of the country was also affected by the decline of grants and domestic revenues that were originally deteriorated as a result of modest growth, which led to the deterioration of the public debt in the past few years.

Despite the all the aforementioned challenges and obstacles, Jordan continues to work on overcoming hardships in the journey of economic reform in; Jordan has launched its programme for the next two years. Jordan is also trying to resume its trade relation with neighbouring countries such as Syria and Iraq.

يقوم منتدى الاستراتيجيات الأردني بمشاركة المعلومات الاقتصادية المهمة التي يتم تجميعها من مصادر عالمية مختلفة؛ وذلك بهدف نشر الوعي حول الأمور الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والتوعية في ظل التغييرات التي يشهدها العالم وذلك لمواكبة آخر التطورات وطرح مجال للتفكير في حلول تعمل على تنمية وتعزيز الاقتصاد الوطني. Jordan Strategy Forum shares important economic information that is collected from various international sources; with the aim of raising economic and social awareness. This is done in order to track the latest developments and suggest solutions that would develop and strengthen the national economy