Jordan’s Department of Statistics said its annual employment measure recorded 87,617 net jobs for 2025. The figure was published in a release issued in September 2026 and refers to the preceding calendar year, rather than to new hiring in September. The department’s account also said Jordanian nationals represented about 91 percent of the net jobs reported. Those two measures describe the annual total and its nationality composition; they do not indicate that every job was permanent, full-time or newly created by a single employer. The headline is a labor-market aggregate assembled under the department’s statistical definition.

The word net is central to interpreting the release. It describes the balance after job gains and losses have been considered in the measure, rather than a simple count of all recruitment announcements. A net total can therefore differ from the number of people hired during the year, because workers may leave jobs and positions may close as other posts open. The 87,617 figure should not be read as the number of unemployed people who found work, nor as a count of vacancies available at year-end. It is the department’s estimate of net job creation over the reference year.

The nationality share offers another view of the same annual result. At about 91 percent, Jordanians made up the large majority of the net jobs in the release, while the balance was attributed to non-Jordanians. This proportion is not an unemployment rate and does not reveal the distribution of jobs by occupation, wage, industry or working hours. Those questions require separate tables. Nor does the share by itself establish why employment changed: the release supplies a measured outcome, while causal explanations would require additional evidence about economic activity, labor supply and employer demand.

The reference period matters because the report appeared after the year it describes. Readers comparing it with monthly announcements or a later annual series should align the periods and definitions first. A calendar-year net measure cannot be compared directly with one month of gross hiring, and a change in methodology may affect comparisons across years. The Department of Statistics is the primary source for the figure; its release is the appropriate place to consult the precise definitions, coverage and accompanying tables. The number is an official statistical report, not a forecast of future employment.

For workers and employers, the aggregate provides a broad indicator of how many net positions the statistical system attributes to the year, but it leaves important questions open. It does not specify how many jobs offered social insurance coverage, how long positions lasted, or whether wages kept pace with prices. It also does not show whether new positions were concentrated in a small number of sectors or spread across the economy. These limits do not diminish the usefulness of the annual total; they set the boundaries of what can be concluded from it. The central reported facts are 87,617 net jobs in 2025 and an approximately 91 percent Jordanian share.