Jordan's agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) was 1.08% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.08 percentage points from 1.17% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.08% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 1.02% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.17% | 2014 |
| Highest | 3.8% | 1967 |
| Lowest | 1.02% | 2019 |
| Average since 2015 | 1.1% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 3.36% | 1964 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Jordan's agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 0.02 percentage points on 2023 (from 1.1% to 1.08%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1992 to 2023), the average change was +0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.21 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.61 percentage points in 1983 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.11 percentage points in 1971. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 10% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Jordan had the 16th highest value of the 36 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Jordan | 1.08% | 2024 |
| World | 1.16% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 1.8% | 2025 |
Closest to Jordan in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Agricultural raw materials comprise section 2 of SITC Rev. 3 (crude materials, inedible, except fuels) excluding divisions 22 (oil-seeds and oleaginous fruits), 27 (crude fertilizers and minerals excluding coal, petroleum, and precious stones), and 28 (metalliferous ores and scrap). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.
Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 59 values
| Year | Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.08 |
| 2023 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1.04 |
| 2020 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 1.02 |
| 2018 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 1.06 |
| 2016 | 1.16 |
| 2015 | 1.18 |
| 2014 |
Agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 1.77% (2019)
- Algeria — 1.57% (2024)
- Bahrain — 0.62% (2024)
- Djibouti — 1.14% (2023)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 2% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 2.88% (2023)
- Iraq — 0.32% (2024)
- Israel — 0.74% (2025)
- Kuwait — 0.44% (2025)
More private sector & trade data for Jordan
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$28.95 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$14.91 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 26.1% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 56.3% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 38.28% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 22.8% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Europe & Central Asia (% of total merchandise imports)
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Questions people ask
- What is Jordan's agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports)?
- 1.08% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1964?
- It is down 2.28 percentage points from 3.36% in 1964. The highest value was 3.8% in 1967 and the lowest 1.02% in 2019.
- How does Jordan rank?
- 16th highest of 36 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) unusual for Jordan?
- In 2024, Jordan's agricultural raw materials imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 0.02 percentage points on 2023 (from 1.1% to 1.08%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1992 to 2023), the average change was +0 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.21 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.AGRI.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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