The Size of the Domestic IT Market

 

The following statistics is taken from Reach 3.0 [3]:

Percentage of people employed in IT firms with technical positions: 57%

Total Revenues generated from IT: $168 million

Domestic Revenues generated from IT: $138 million

Export Revenues generated from IT: $38 million

Percentage of Total Domestic Revenue: 15.1%

Size of the Jordanian IT Sector in the Economy [23]

Summary of Gross Value-Added Output by the Various Computer and Other IT Sub-Sectors in Jordan 1998 (JD)
 
  No. of
Firms		 Number of Employees Gross
Output		 Gross
Value
Added
Services
Software Consulting & Supply		 33 278 2,131 1,464
Maintenance Operations 43 114 531 391
Retail Trade
Retail Computer Sales		 400 2,500 14,321 11,272
Industry
Computer-Aided
Printing & Design		 8 98 1,574 76
Manufacturing of Electricity
Distribution and Control
Apparatus		 9 146 4,364 1,830
Manufacturing of Insulated
Wires and Cables		 6 801 23,869 4,003
Manufacturing of Monitors
and Receivers		 2 291 28,496 8,556
Telecommunications
Telecommunications Services		 5 5,423 252,151 218,610
Total IT Sector 506 9,651 372,438 246,203
GDP in 1998       4,408,000
Percent of GDP       5.6%
 
The Jordanian IT Sector contribute up to 5.6% in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)