That calculated dollar amount results from a 20.9% increase over the five-year period starting five years earlier in 2020 when Jordan’s overall exports were $7.94 billion.
Year over year, total exports from Jordan declined by -23.7% compared to $12.6 billion starting from 2023.
Jordan’s legal currency is the Jordanian dinar which is pegged to the American dollar.
The top 5 most valuable exports from Jordan are natural calcium or aluminum phosphates, jewelry, phosphoric or polyphosphoric acids, potassic fertilizers then knitted or crocheted jerseys and pullovers. Collectively, that set of 5 major exported goods generated almost half (40%) of all payments received for all of Jordan’s exports during 2024.
Best Customers for Jordanian Exports
The latest available country-specific data from 2023 shows that 72.8% of products exported from Jordan was bought by importers in: United States of America (22.9% of the Jordanian total), India (13.7%), Saudi Arabia (11.5%), Iraq (7.5%), United Arab Emirates (4.3%), mainland China (2.8%), Palestine (2.7%), Egypt (1.8%), Indonesia (1.51%), Kuwait (1.49%), Qatar (1.3%) and Switzerland (1.2%).
From a continental perspective, 58.9% of Jordan’s exports by value was delivered to Asian countries while 26% was sold to importers in North America. Jordan shipped another 7.6% worth of goods to Europe, with 5.7% going to buyers in Africa.
Smaller percentages went to Latin America (1.1%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Oceania (0.7%) Australia and New Zealand only.
Given Jordan’s population of 11.4 million people, its total $9.6 billion in 2024 exports translates to roughly $850 for each resident in the Western Asian nation. That dollar metric lags the average $1,220 per capita one year earlier during 2023.
Jordan’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Jordanian global shipments during 2024. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Jordan.
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: US$1.9 billion (20% of total exports)
- Gems, precious metals: $1.14 billion (11.9%)
- Fertilizers: $1.11 billion (11.6%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $1.06 billion (11.1%)
- Inorganic chemicals: $1.04 billion (10.8%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $572.6 million (6%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $370.6 million (3.9%)
- Machinery including computers: $195.7 million (2%)
- Organic chemicals: $192.6 million (2%)
- Live animals: $122 million (1.3%)
Jordan’s top 10 exports generated four-fifths (80.4%) of the overall value of its global shipments.
Unknitted or non-crocheted clothing and accessories represents the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 838.5% from 2023 to 2024.
In second place for improving export sales was organic chemicals via a 610.5% advance.
Jordan’s shipments of salt, sulphur, stone and cement posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 5.9%.
The leading decliner among Jordan’s top 10 export categories was pharmaceuticals, pulled down by a -52.1% year-over-year drop.
The product categories listed above are at the two-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level.
Drilling down to the more granular four-digit HTS codes, Jordan’s most valuable exported products in 2024 were natural calcium or aluminum phosphates (10.8% of the country’s total exports revenues) trailed by jewelry (10%), phosphoric or polyphosphoric acids (6.8%), potassic fertilizers (6.3%), knitted or crocheted jerseys and pullovers (6.1%), fertilizer mixes (4.5%), knitted or crocheted women’s clothing (3.7%), knitted or crocheted t-shirts and vests (2.8%), knitted or crocheted men’s suits and trousers (2.7%), then medication mixes (2.5%).
Products Creating Jordan’s Largest Trade Surpluses
The following types of Jordanian product shipments represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.
In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: US$1.7 billion (Up by 10.3% since 2023)
- Fertilizers: $1.1 billion (Down by -23.1%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $985.6 million (Up by 24.3%)
- Inorganic chemicals: $867.2 million (Down by -28.6%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $395.8 million (Reversing a -$67.1 million deficit)
- Vegetables: $47.6 million (Down by -72.1%)
- Copper: $38.6 million (Reversing a -$128.4 million deficit)
- Gems, precious metals: $14.1 million (Reversing a -$526.2 million deficit)
- Lead: $12.8 million (Down by -14.6%)
- Textile floor coverings: $6.9 million (Down by -77%)
Jordan has highly positive net exports in the international trade of knitted or crocheted clothing and accessories. In turn, these cashflows indicate Jordan’s strong competitive advantages under the knit or crochet clothing and accessories product category.
Products Causing Jordan’s Worst Trade Deficits
Jordan incurred an overall -US$12.2 billion trade deficit for 2024, slowing by -7.4% from -$13.1 billion in red ink one year earlier during 2023.
Below are exports from Jordan that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Jordan’s goods trail Jordanian importer spending on foreign products.
- Vehicles: -US$2.6 billion (Up by 20.3% since 2023)
- Mineral fuels including oil: -$1.8 billion (Down by -47.7%)
- Machinery including computers: -$1.5 billion (Up by 14.7%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: -$1.11 billion (Up by 108.2%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$1.08 billion (Up by 7.3%)
- Knit or crochet fabric: -$601.7 million (Down by -6.7%)
- Cereals: -$567.7 million (Down by -41.9%)
- Meat: -$472.6 million (Up by 36%)
- Aircraft, spacecraft: -$453.5 million (Up by 608%)
- Pharmaceuticals: -$428.4 million (Up by 29,857%)
Jordan had highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits for mostly for cars but also trucks under the vehicles product category as well as processed petroleum oils, crude oil and petroleum gases under the mineral fuels-related category.
Jordanian Export Companies
One Jordanian corporation ranks among Forbes Global 2000, namely Arab Bank.
Wikipedia lists companies from Jordan that engage in international trade. Selected examples are shown below.
- Aqaba Railway Corporation (industrial transportation)
- Arab Bridge Maritime (industrial transportation)
- Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (oil, gas)
- Jordan Phosphate Mines (chemicals)
- Jordan Steel (basic materials)
- King Hussein International Airport (industrial transportation)
- Queen Alia International Airport (industrial transportation)
In macroeconomic terms, Jordan’s total exported goods represent 7.7% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2024 ($125 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 7.7% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2024 compares to 9.5% for 2023. Those percentages suggest a relatively decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Jordan’s total economic performance, albeit based on a relatively short timeframe.
Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Jordan’s unemployment rate averaged 21.3% at the end of March 2025, down from an average 21.4% one year earlier in 2024 according to Trading Economics metrics.
Jordan’s capital city is Amman, historically named Rabbath Ammon meaning the “Capital” or the “King’s Quarters”.
See also America’s Top Trading Partners, India’s Top Trading Partners,Saudi Arabia’s Top 10 Imports,Iraq’s Top Trading Partners and UAE’s Top 10 Exports
Research Sources:
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on June 29, 2025
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on June 29, 2025
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on June 29, 2025
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on June 29, 2025
Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on June 29, 2025
Wikipedia, Jordan. Accessed on June 29, 2025
Wikipedia, List of Companies of Jordan. Accessed on June 29, 2025
Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on June 29, 2025