According to the Department of Statistics in Jordan, the GDP grew by 3.2 percent during the second quarter of this year, compared to the second quarter of 2020.
The estimates showed that the economic sectors achieved growth during the second quarter of 2021 compared to the second quarter of 2020, where the construction sector achieved the highest growth rate during this period of 5.7 percent, then the extractive industries sector with a rate of 5.4 percent, followed by the transportation, storage and communications sector by 4.3 percent, then the manufacturing sector by 3.9 percent, then the wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants sector by 3.8 percent.
In terms of the sectors’ contribution to the growth rate achieved during the second quarter of 2021 of 3.2 percent, the manufacturing sector contributed 0.66 percentage points, while the finance, insurance, real estate and business services sectors contributed by 0.54 percentage points, while the transport, storage and communications sector contributed by 0.35 percentage points to the total achieved growth rate.
Source (Ad-Dustour Newspaper-Jordan, Edited)
