Jamaica World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Jamaica	Rank
GDP	$15.7B	122
GDP growth, 1 year	1.4%	161
GDP growth, 5-years average	1%	153
Population	2.9M	137
GDP per capita	$5.4k	106
GDP per capita growth	1.45%	113
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	73.98	52
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.57	69
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$9.4k	117
GNI, Atlas method	$14.6B	121
GNI per capita	$5k	102
GNI, PPP adjusted	$26.1B	136
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$8.9k	114

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Jamaica	Rank
Income Tax Rate	25%	68
Corporate Tax Rate	25%	90
Inflation, consumer prices	3.7%	127
Inflation, GDP deflator	4.8%	134
Unemployment	9.5%	148
Economic Freedom Index	68.5	53
Personal Freedom Index	7.29	83
Human Freedom Index	7.16	74
Property Rights Index	62.1	65
Judical Effectiveness Index	50.5	59
Business Freedom Index	77.7	32
Fiscal Health Index	80.2	85
Labor Freedom Index	74	28
Investment Freedom Index	80	32
Financial Freedom Index	50	87
Trade Freedom Index	68.4	117
Monetary Freedom Index	77.7	76
Government Spending Index	74.8	73
Tax Burden Index	80	76
Government Integrity Index	46.8	59
Corruption Perceptions Index	44	87
Life expectancy at birth, years	74.3	93
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	2.2	18
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	13.6	81
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	57	196
International tourism, number of arrivals	2.5M	82

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Jamaica	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	99.4%	18
External debt stocks, % of GNI	108%	7
External debt stocks	$16.3B	47
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	56.4%	26
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	20.4%	32
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	15.9%	36
Gross savings, % of GDP	21.3%	85
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	23.3%	90
Total reserves including gold	$3.5B	101
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$774.6M	95

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Jamaica	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	38%	87
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	51.1%	70
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$287.6M	83
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	29.3%	52
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$96.8M	103
Personal remittances received	$2.5B	52
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	20.3%	126
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	6.6%	97
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$50.8M	79
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$5.3M	86
Expense, % of GDP	26.7%	67
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	29%	107