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Jordan Labor Emigration
The oil price increases of 1973 and 1974 stimulated tremendous
labor demand in the Arab petroleum-exporting nations, which tended
to have small populations. Jordan, suffering from unemployment and
having an educated and skilled work force, was prepared to fill
this vacuum; over the following decade, several hundred thousand
Jordanians left their country to work in neighboring Arab nations
(see Jordan - Migration
, ch. 2). About 60 percent of Jordanian emigrants
worked in Saudi Arabia, about 30 percent worked in Kuwait, and most
of the remainder found employment in other Persian Gulf states.
Data as of December 1989
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