And if we know that job opportunities available to non-Jordanians have decreased by more than 20%, this means that foreign labor is no longer a major threat to national employment.
We previously said that the Ministry of Labor is working in the dark and does not have accurate statistics on the actual number of foreign workers, for reasons that are too long to explain, but it has traditional means of controlling foreign labor. It uses periodic regularization of status in an attempt to limit foreign labor, only to discover that regularization has not encouraged obtaining work permits as expected, either because fees are high or because some workers do not want to work for a year. We suggested that work permits should be issued every six months or even every three months. On the other hand, it conducts inspection and raid campaigns on various establishments, and even the latter do not achieve the expected success.
Returning to the newly created job opportunities, the net newly created job opportunities in 2025 amounted to about 87,617 new jobs, with Jordanians occupying nearly 91% of them, according to reports from the Department of Statistics.
The most prominent indicators of newly created job opportunities are that Jordanians occupied the largest proportion of jobs, while the number of job opportunities available to non-Jordanians decreased significantly.
The most important surprise was the proportion of females among them, which was noticeable.
The most important result was in the age groups that occupied these jobs, as the vast majority of newly created jobs were for the young age group between 20-29 years, followed by the age group 30-39 years, which are the young groups about to enter the workforce after graduation.
The Jordanian society is a rich society, its workforce is extensive, and the transition of the economy to production is a very important transition that suits this characteristic.
