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Jordan’s GDP marks growth in G1 by 2.2%

24 Jun 2017

(MENAFN) The Jordanian Department of Statistics released data showing that the country’s GDP for Q1 had grown by 2.2%, comparing to the same period of previous year.

In details, most production sectors showed growth during the mentioned period, where the mining industries sector achieved the highest growth rate of 14.7%, followed by the agricultural sector with 8.2%.

According to Joran News Agency (PETRA), electricity and water sector and the commissions sector, which are both non-profit sectors, achieved 4.3% growth rate each.

However, the finance, insurance and real estate sectors contributed to 0.71 per cent of the total growth rate, while he agriculture sector had 0.3 per cent, and the share of the extraction industries stood at 0.23 per cent

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