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Jordan’s industrial sector expanded 4.6% in the second quarter of 2026, according to a statement from the Jordan Chamber of Industry reported by Petra on October 1. The chamber estimated that industry contributed about 40% of the Kingdom’s economic growth during the quarter. The report presents chamber commentary on national economic data, rather than a new statistical release from the government statistics department.
Manufacturing grew 6.2% from a year earlier, the chamber said, and added 1.04 percentage points to GDP growth, or about 35% of the total. It described the quarterly increase as the strongest since 2008. Manufacturing accounted for 17.2% of GDP measured at constant prices, underscoring its weight in the country’s production mix.
The chamber linked the figures to continued industrial activity and said manufacturing growth exceeded the reported 3% expansion of the national economy in the quarter. That comparison is year on year and concerns output growth, while the contribution measures how much manufacturing added to overall GDP growth; the measures describe different things.
The statement called for faster implementation of industrial initiatives and attention to production costs, financing and market access. Those are policy recommendations, not commitments made in the report. Petra’s account provides no detailed sector series or methodology, so the chamber’s estimates should be read as attributed figures rather than independently recalculated values.