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Jordan’s Industrial Production Quantity Index rose 0.62% in the first eight months of 2026 from the same period a year earlier, according to the Department of Statistics report released on 12 October. The index increased 3.34% year over year in August and 3.16% from July. The cumulative index reached 89.45 points, compared with 88.90 a year earlier.
Manufacturing, which has an 88.7% weight in the index, grew 0.71% through August; electricity, with a 5.9% weight, rose 2.14%. Mining and quarrying, weighted at 5.4%, declined 2.21%. In August alone, month-over-month output rose 9.74% in electricity and 9.22% in mining, while manufacturing increased 2.38%.

