Jamaica
61 figures for Jamaica, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Jamaica compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $8,003 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $13,291 (2025)
- Economic growth +0.1% (2025)
- Unemployment 3.3% (2025)
- Inflation +5.4% (2024)
- Income per person $10,057 (2023)
- Household wealth 75.2 (2011)
- Poorer households 9.7% (2011)
- Wealth inequality 0.13 (2011)
People
- Population 2.84 million (2023)
- Population growth −0.07% (2025)
- Births per woman 1.35 (2024)
- Typical age 31.7 (2023)
- Living in cities 59.4% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.720 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 1.013 (2023)
- People per household 3.2 (2011)
- People over 65 8.7% (2011)
- Children under 15 27.8% (2011)
- Women’s age at first marriage 22.6 (2011)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.9 (2014)
Health
- Life expectancy 71.5 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 17.8 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 130 (2023)
- Health spending per person $520 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 94% (2024)
- Overweight adults 61.1% (2022)
- Homes with piped water 73.7% (2011)
- Homes with a flush toilet 45.1% (2011)
Education
- Years of schooling 10.0 (2023)
- Expected years in school 12.4 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 85.4% (2023)
- Education spending 5.4% (2022)
- Teens in school 87.1% (2011)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 2.96 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 8.4 million (2024)
- Forest cover 56.2% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 17.6 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 10.5% (2021)
- Average temperature 26.1 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 935 (2023)
- Access to electricity 97.7% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 12.6% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 12.3% (2011)
Technology
- Internet users 90.1% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 105.8 (2022)
- Home broadband 15.0 (2022)
- Homes with internet 66.0% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 95.0% (2011)
Food and farming
- Hunger 7.7% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,140 (2023)
- Farmland 38.5% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 13.9% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.81 (2025)
- Human rights 0.88 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.09 (2025)
- Women in parliament 30.2% (2025)
- Military spending 1.3% (2024)
- Clean government 62.5 (2022)