In 2018, unemployment was 15 per cent, while youth unemployment registered at an all-time high at 37 per cent. While 350,000 foreigners made up a quarter of the Jordanian workforce in 2013, an estimated 1 million Jordanians work abroad, often in the Arabian Gulf. Ranked as an upper-middle income country, Jordan has a market economy, complemented by development aid and remittances, with the service sector, including tourism, accounting for 62 per cent of GDP in 2018, with industry at 27.5 per cent and agriculture at just 5.6 per cent. The inflows had raised Jordan’s population to 9.95 million by 2018, placing heavy strains on its resources and economy. Jordan is small, relatively stable country that has become a refuge for large numbers of people fleeing conflict in Iraq and Syria.