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Population in Jamaica compared to Mexico: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Jamaica was 2,839,175 in 2024 vs 130,861,007 people in Mexico in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Jamaica's population is 2,837,071 people compared to 132,790,957 in Mexico.

Population statistics:

  • Mexico's population is 46.8 times bigger than Jamaica's.
  • Jamaica is ranked the 140th most populous country in the world, while Mexico is the 11th.
  • The countries together account for 1.64% of the world: 0.03% for Jamaica vs 1.61% for Mexico.
  • For the last 10 years, Jamaica has had an average growth rate of +0.18% per year vs +0.92% in Mexico.
  • Since 2005, the population of Jamaica has increased from 2.69M people to 2.84M (5.58% growth), while Mexico has grown from 106M to 133M (25.5% growth).
  • Mexico is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 150M people, while Jamaica's population already peaked in 2023 at 2.84M people and is projected to decrease to 1.07M people by 2100.

Jamaica vs Mexico: live population counter

Jamaica Mexico
Current population
2837071
132790957
Population rank 140/197 11/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 1.61%
One net population change
14.3 hours
28.1 seconds
One birth every
15.9 minutes
15.5 seconds
One death every
22.9 minutes
39.5 seconds
One migration net change every
50 minutes
5.03 minutes
Annual migration change -10,506 -104,581
Daily growth/decline -2 +3,072
Annual growth/decline -611 +1,121,248
Annual growth/decline rate -0.02% +0.86%
Population growth rate rank 167/197 113/197

Jamaica and Mexico: population history and growth rate by year chart

Jamaica
Population

Growth rate
Mexico
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Jamaica Mexico Jamaica Mexico
1960 1,650,005 36,724,615 - -
1961 1,673,261 37,890,118 1.41% 3.17%
1962 1,696,932 39,129,200 1.41% 3.27%
1963 1,721,099 40,424,065 1.42% 3.31%
1964 1,745,568 41,772,049 1.42% 3.33%
1965 1,769,192 43,174,477 1.35% 3.36%
1966 1,791,475 44,629,106 1.26% 3.37%
1967 1,812,865 46,129,608 1.19% 3.36%
1968 1,833,765 47,668,303 1.15% 3.34%
1969 1,855,127 49,233,194 1.16% 3.28%
1970 1,878,196 50,814,953 1.24% 3.21%
1971 1,903,728 52,412,558 1.36% 3.14%
1972 1,931,542 54,030,168 1.46% 3.09%
1973 1,961,219 55,667,284 1.54% 3.03%
1974 1,990,906 57,320,149 1.51% 2.97%
1975 2,018,981 58,982,400 1.41% 2.9%
1976 2,045,578 60,645,512 1.32% 2.82%
1977 2,070,657 62,308,493 1.23% 2.74%
1978 2,094,836 63,979,046 1.17% 2.68%
1979 2,119,486 65,648,865 1.18% 2.61%
1980 2,145,658 67,300,334 1.23% 2.52%
1981 2,173,818 68,892,108 1.31% 2.37%
1982 2,203,889 70,433,260 1.38% 2.24%
1983 2,234,832 71,971,240 1.4% 2.18%
1984 2,264,562 73,506,846 1.33% 2.13%
1985 2,290,656 75,043,414 1.15% 2.09%
1986 2,312,125 76,585,637 0.94% 2.06%
1987 2,329,813 78,136,651 0.77% 2.03%
1988 2,345,777 79,695,531 0.69% 2%
1989 2,361,916 81,247,182 0.69% 1.95%
1990 2,379,877 82,820,170 0.76% 1.94%
1991 2,400,869 84,430,572 0.88% 1.94%
1992 2,424,701 86,044,809 0.99% 1.91%
1993 2,449,916 87,653,807 1.04% 1.87%
1994 2,475,220 89,259,205 1.03% 1.83%
1995 2,500,151 90,862,455 1.01% 1.8%
1996 2,524,463 92,452,702 0.97% 1.75%
1997 2,547,848 94,021,207 0.93% 1.7%
1998 2,569,736 95,575,245 0.86% 1.65%
1999 2,589,795 97,115,707 0.78% 1.61%
2000 2,607,826 98,625,552 0.7% 1.55%
2001 2,624,403 100,099,099 0.64% 1.49%
2002 2,640,572 101,548,624 0.62% 1.45%
2003 2,656,623 102,978,515 0.61% 1.41%
2004 2,672,225 104,394,131 0.59% 1.37%
2005 2,687,066 105,811,504 0.56% 1.36%
2006 2,700,968 107,253,666 0.52% 1.36%
2007 2,713,800 108,774,360 0.48% 1.42%
2008 2,725,635 110,374,288 0.44% 1.47%
2009 2,736,995 111,999,721 0.42% 1.47%
2010 2,748,568 113,623,895 0.42% 1.45%
2011 2,760,494 115,243,504 0.43% 1.43%
2012 2,772,430 116,818,208 0.43% 1.37%
2013 2,783,687 118,343,573 0.41% 1.31%
2014 2,793,749 119,784,261 0.36% 1.22%
2015 2,802,534 121,072,306 0.31% 1.08%
2016 2,809,915 122,251,351 0.26% 0.97%
2017 2,815,764 123,400,057 0.21% 0.94%
2018 2,820,097 124,573,711 0.15% 0.95%
2019 2,823,271 125,762,982 0.11% 0.95%
2020 2,830,739 126,799,054 0.26% 0.82%
2021 2,837,682 127,648,148 0.25% 0.67%
2022 2,839,144 128,613,117 0.05% 0.76%
2023 2,839,786 129,739,759 0.02% 0.88%
2024 2,839,175 130,861,007 -0.02% 0.86%
2025 2,837,071 131,946,905 -0.07% 0.83%
2026 2,833,401 132,997,664 -0.13% 0.8%
2027 2,828,530 134,017,711 -0.17% 0.77%
2028 2,822,861 135,008,697 -0.2% 0.74%
2029 2,816,391 135,970,893 -0.23% 0.71%
2030 2,808,946 136,904,747 -0.26% 0.69%
2031 2,800,607 137,811,068 -0.3% 0.66%
2032 2,791,130 138,690,189 -0.34% 0.64%
2033 2,780,468 139,542,087 -0.38% 0.61%
2034 2,768,714 140,362,026 -0.42% 0.59%
2035 2,755,929 141,150,818 -0.46% 0.56%
2036 2,742,071 141,909,168 -0.5% 0.54%
2037 2,726,892 142,637,546 -0.55% 0.51%
2038 2,710,812 143,336,222 -0.59% 0.49%
2039 2,693,901 143,998,296 -0.62% 0.46%
2040 2,676,087 144,624,328 -0.66% 0.43%
2041 2,657,558 145,217,780 -0.69% 0.41%
2042 2,638,085 145,777,459 -0.73% 0.39%
2043 2,617,576 146,300,011 -0.78% 0.36%
2044 2,596,160 146,787,722 -0.82% 0.33%
2045 2,574,074 147,240,096 -0.85% 0.31%
2046 2,551,347 147,654,160 -0.88% 0.28%
2047 2,528,004 148,030,153 -0.91% 0.25%
2048 2,504,191 148,372,233 -0.94% 0.23%
2049 2,479,744 148,677,894 -0.98% 0.21%
2050 2,454,935 148,946,272 -1% 0.18%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Jamaica increased by 115,468 people (a 4.3% growth), while Mexico gained 15,260,802 people (a 14.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Jamaica gained 34,537 (a 1.23% growth), while Mexico's population increased by 11,718,651 (a 9.68% growth).

Jamaica was ranked 135th most populous country in 2005 and is 140th in 2025. Mexico was ranked 11th in 2005 and still ranked 11th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Jamaica's population will shrink by 13.5% to 2,454,935 people with a rank change from 140th to 144th. The population of Mexico will increase by 12.2% to 148,946,272 people and rank change from 11th to 12th.

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