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The country, Jordan, is not today as it was more than two decades ago, and no one should deny what has happened in the legislation and laws that led to this openness and accelerated achievement.
There has always been and still is a will to modernize and develop, and the King has always been determined, tireless, and never gives up, no matter the obstacles that His Majesty himself has pointed out more than once.
The tremendous openness to the world in agreements that opened up horizons that did not exist, contributing to the development of the Jordanian product itself, cannot be denied.
The naked eye cannot deny this development in infrastructure, real estate, and expanding and new cities.
Is the reality of mining industries today the same as it was two decades ago? Is the reality of the entire industry the same as it was, as well as agriculture and services?
There are those who do not see any achievement, and perhaps they exaggerate by demanding an apology for it, but the writer of this column demands that those who see the facts and deliberately deny them apologize to those for their achievements.
The argument of these people is that the indicators they admit are positive, as we will see, do not reflect on the life of the citizen.
Jordan's nominal GDP is approximately $64.9 billion (equivalent to about 46 billion Jordanian Dinars) according to 2026 estimates.
The total cumulative investment in Jordan's industrial sector is about 15 billion Jordanian Dinars.
The market value of companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (Jordan Capital Market) was about 30.5 billion Jordanian Dinars by mid-2026.
The total value of Jordanian exports was 6,395 million Jordanian Dinars during the first seven months of 2026, registering a growth of 10.3% compared to the same period in 2025.
And so in all sectors that this column does not have space to list.
Only before judging, we must look into the statistics.
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