That calculated dollar amount results from an 11.8% increase over the five-year period starting five years earlier in 2021 when Jordan’s overall exports were $9.36 billion.
Year over year, total exports from Jordan declined by -21.2% compared to $13.3 billion starting from 2024.
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, phosphoric or polyphosphoric acids, potassic fertilizers, jewelry then knitted or crocheted jerseys and pullovers. Collectively, that set of 5 major exported goods generated almost more than a third (35.4%) of all payments received for all of Jordan’s exports during 2025.
Best Customers for Jordanian Exports
The latest available country-specific data shows that 74.5% of products exported from Jordan was bought by importers in: United States of America (24.7% of the Jordanian total), Saudi Arabia (12.3%), India (10.5%), Iraq (10.2%), United Arab Emirates (4.3%), mainland China (2.4%), Palestine (2.2%), Egypt (2.1%), Kuwait (1.7%), Qatar (1.32%), Algeria (1.3%) and Israel (1.29%).
From a continental perspective, 58.2% of Jordan’s exports by value was delivered to Asian countries while 27.2% was sold to importers in North America.
Jordan shipped another 7.3% worth of goods to Europe, with 5.9% going to buyers in Africa.
Smaller percentages went to Latin America (0.8%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, then Oceania (0.5%) Australia and New Zealand only.
Given Jordan’s population of 11.44 million people, its total US$10.5 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $900 for each resident in the Western Asian nation. That dollar metric exceeds the average $850 per capita one year earlier during 2024.
Jordan’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Jordanian global shipments during 2025. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Jordan.
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: US$2.1 billion (19.9% of total exports)
- Inorganic chemicals: $1.2 billion (11.8%)
- Fertilizers: $1.1 billion (10.4%)
- Gems, precious metals: $1 billion (10%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $966.6 million (9.2%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $694.1 million (6.6%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $437.2 million (4.2%)
- Machinery including computers: $232.1 million (2.2%)
- Organic chemicals: $212.2 million (2.0%)
- Aluminum: $152.9 million (1.5%)
Jordan’s top 10 exports generated almost four-fifths (77.8%) of the overall value of its global shipments.
Unknitted and non-crocheted clothing or accessories represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 1,126% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place for improving export sales was organic chemicals via an 816% advance.
Jordan’s shipments of salt, sulphur, stone and cement posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 20%.
The leading decliner among Jordan’s top 10 export categories was pharmaceuticals, recording a -51.3% 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 2025 were natural calcium or aluminum phosphates (9% of the country’s total exports revenues) trailed by phosphoric or polyphosphoric acids (7.8%), potassic fertilizers (7.4%), jewelry (5.8%), knitted or crocheted jerseys and pullovers (5.4%), knitted or crocheted women’s clothing (4%), unwrought gold (3.5%), knitted or crocheted men’s suits and trousers (3.3%), knitted or crocheted t-shirts and vests (2.9%) then unknitted and non-crocheted women’s clothing (2.7%).
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$1.8 billion (Down by -11.8% since 2024)
- Inorganic chemicals: $1.1 billion (Up by 40.6%)
- Fertilizers: $1 billion (Down by -22.5%)
- Salt, sulphur, stone, cement: $864.8 million (Up by 29.9%)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $420.5 million (Reversing a -$32 million deficit)
- Copper: $42.5 million (Reversing a -$131 million deficit)
- Lead: $16.1 million (Up by 14.7%)
- Collector items, art, antiques: $4.2 million (Reversing a -$9,000 deficit)
- Textile floor coverings: $3.8 million (Down by -87.1%)
- Gums, resins, other vegetable saps: $2.1 million (Reversing a -$6.6 million deficit)
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$15 billion trade deficit for 2025, expanding by -10.3% from -$13.6 billion in red ink one year earlier during 2024.
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$3.2 billion (Up by 29.2% since 2024)
- Machinery including computers: -$1.8 billion (Up by 17%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$1.5 billion (Up by 44.5%)
- Aircraft, spacecraft: -$1.4 billion (Up by 2130.7%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: -$1.3 billion (Up by 123.9%)
- Cereals: -$778.3 million (Down by -17.4%)
- Knit or crochet fabric: -$675.8 million (Down by -5.7%)
- Mineral fuels including oil: -$597.7 million (Down by -79.3%)
- Meat: -$494.1 million (Up by 12.2%)
- Gems, precious metals: -$415.4 million (Down by -12.5%)
Historically, Jordan had highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits for mostly for cars but also trucks under the vehicles product 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 7.9% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($131.7 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 7.9% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 compares to 7.7% for 2024. Those percentages suggest a relatively increasing 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 21.1% at the end of March 2026, down from an average 21.3% one year earlier in 2025 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 July 14, 2026
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on July 14, 2026
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on July 14, 2026
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on July 14, 2026
Wikipedia, Gross domestic product. Accessed on July 14, 2026
Wikipedia, Jordan. Accessed on July 14, 2026
Wikipedia, List of Companies of Jordan. Accessed on July 14, 2026
Wikipedia, Purchasing power parity. Accessed on July 14, 2026