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Comparator Countries, Share of Medium and High-Tech Products in Manufactured Exports (1990-2016): 11 Resident Patent Applications: 11 Distribution of Work Permits by Sector, Sex, and Nationality: 16 National Unemployment Rate: 19 Education Levels of New Market Entrants (1960-2010): 21 The Unemployment by Education Levels (2000-2010): 21 The Jordanian Employed (2013-2017): 22 Labor Force Participation Rates (1990-2018): 26 Employment to Population Ratio (2000-2018): 26 Employment Structure in Private-Wage Employment by Firm Size (2010): 32 British Subsidy to Mandate Transjordan (1921-1944): 89 Jordan Trade Performance (1954-1966): 125 Domestic and International Borrowing (1974-1989): 143 State Expenditures (1974-1989): 144 Foreign Trade (1974-1989): 158 Sources of Government Receipts (1974-1989): 158 Asset of Licensed Commercial Banks (1976-1990): 161 GDP Per Capita Growth (1982-1991): 165 Share of Public Sector in Total Employment under King Abdullah (2000-2016): 209 Public Sector Jobs Created (2007-2017): 209 Average Annual Household Expenditures on Health Services (2008-2017): 218 Tax Revenues (2005-2017): 219 Treasury Bills and Bond Issues to GDP Ratio (2001-2016): 223 Overall FDI Restrictiveness Index: 235 QIZ Exports (2000-2011): 239 QIZ vs. FTA, Exports (2010-2011): 239 QIZ Job Creation and Export Sophistication: 244 Total Assets of Licensed Commercial Banks (2000-2018): 272 Aggregate Sectoral Income (2017): 273 Share of Aggregate Sector Market Capitalization and Sector Annual Income (2017, 2019): 277-290 Work Permit Holders by Nationalities (2004-2014): 314 Jordan’s Official Development Assistance (1990-2009): 333 Jordan’s Annual Official Development Assistance (2010-2017): 336 US Aid Budget Allocations (2019): 340 Jordanian Trade Performance (1985-2017): 340 Jordan’s Current Account and Trade Balance under King Abdullah (2000-2017): 341 Terms of Trade (1997-2017): 345 Jordan’s Economic Complexity (1964-2017): 346 Jordan’s Export Basket (2017): 346 vi Jordan’s Export Basket, Product Composition (2017): 347 Value-Add of Domestic Manufactures (1990-2016): 348 ICT Exports as Percentage of Total Exports (Jordan v. 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