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Jordan Long-Range Planning
The 1986-90 Five-Year Plan listed several longer range economic
goals to be attained by the year 2000. The most important was to
keep Jordan's economy growing at a rate faster than the projected
rate of population growth so that gains in the standard of living
would not be diluted. Assuming a drop in the birth rate over the
decade beginning in 1990, this objective would entail maintaining
an annual real (inflation-adjusted) growth rate in GNP of 2
percent. Another goal was to foster 6 percent annual growth of the
consumer and capital goods producing sector of the economy through
the year 2000, so that it would eventually account for more than 40
percent of GDP. Manufacturing value added was to be increased by
substituting domestic materials for imported industrial and raw
material inputs. A related goal was to reduce imported goods and
services to 56 percent of GDP by the year 2000, down from 90
percent in 1985. Technical training was to continue to ensure that
the labor force remained among the most skilled and professional in
the Arab world. Finally, domestic savings were to finance an
increasing share of investment. The plan also listed several
socioeconomic priorities for the year 2000: to continue to
distribute development more equitably throughout the country; to
make the country's arid desert regions a focus of future
development; and to ensure that all citizens had access to health,
education, communications services, housing, and utilities.
Data as of December 1989
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