1. JordanToday Before charting a course for the next decade, it is important to begin with a clear and honest assessment of where we have come from over the past decade since the National Agenda and where we stand today as a society and an economy across all aspects of our development. This chapter provides an integrated and holistic assessment of our Kingdom's social and economic condition at the end of the 2014 through four windows: the current state of our citizens, our society, the private sector and the performance of Government. Figure 1: Jordan 2025 Pillars SOCIETY Jordan Communities CITIZEN BUSINESS Workforce Participation. GOVERNMENT duction Through this framework, Jordan 2025 seeks to understand the current state of Jordanians and Jordanian families; the state of our society as a whole; and how the interaction of civil society, the private sector and the government enables or inhibits our prosperity as citizens. In order to put our current social and economic outcomes into some context for judgment, a range of economic and social performance indicators were compared with a selection of benchmark countries both from our own region in the Middle East as well as countries around the world with similar characteristics to Jordan, such as population size, business environment and natural resources. In order to define our ambitions for the future over the next decade, we must compare ourselves not just to those at a similar level of development today, but also to ountries with more advanced levels of development to which we aspire to achieve in the future. By considering world’s best practice even if those economies are much more advanced than Jordan is today, we can help define our ambitions and the road map for action over the next decade. 39 Ae