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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Jamaica was 2,839,175 in 2024 vs 143,533,851 people in Russia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Jamaica's population is 2,837,071 people compared to 142,718,132 in Russia.

Population statistics:

  • Russia's population is 50.3 times bigger than Jamaica's.
  • Jamaica is ranked the 140th most populous country in the world, while Russia is the 9th.
  • The countries together account for 1.76% of the world: 0.03% for Jamaica vs 1.73% for Russia.
  • For the last 10 years, Jamaica has had an average growth rate of +0.18% per year vs -0.02% in Russia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Jamaica has increased from 2.69M people to 2.84M (5.58% growth), while Russia has declined from 144M to 143M (0.56% decline).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 39.6% of the population in Jamaica and 10.7% in Russia.

Jamaica vs Russia: live population counter

Jamaica Russia
Current population
2837071
142718132
Population rank 140/197 9/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 1.73%
One net population change
14.3 hours
1.8 minutes
One birth every
15.9 minutes
25.5 seconds
One death every
22.9 minutes
18.1 seconds
One migration net change every
50 minutes
2.95 minutes
Annual migration change -10,506 -178,042
Daily growth/decline -2 -801
Annual growth/decline -611 -292,279
Annual growth/decline rate -0.02% -0.2%
Population growth rate rank 167/197 177/197

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

Jamaica
Population

Growth rate
Russia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Jamaica Russia Jamaica Russia
1960 1,650,005 119,897,000 - -
1961 1,673,261 121,236,000 1.41% 1.12%
1962 1,696,932 122,591,000 1.41% 1.12%
1963 1,721,099 123,960,000 1.42% 1.12%
1964 1,745,568 125,345,000 1.42% 1.12%
1965 1,769,192 126,745,000 1.35% 1.12%
1966 1,791,475 127,468,000 1.26% 0.57%
1967 1,812,865 128,196,000 1.19% 0.57%
1968 1,833,765 128,928,000 1.15% 0.57%
1969 1,855,127 129,664,000 1.16% 0.57%
1970 1,878,196 130,404,000 1.24% 0.57%
1971 1,903,728 131,155,000 1.36% 0.58%
1972 1,931,542 131,909,000 1.46% 0.57%
1973 1,961,219 132,669,000 1.54% 0.58%
1974 1,990,906 133,432,000 1.51% 0.58%
1975 2,018,981 134,200,000 1.41% 0.58%
1976 2,045,578 135,147,000 1.32% 0.71%
1977 2,070,657 136,100,000 1.23% 0.71%
1978 2,094,836 137,060,000 1.17% 0.71%
1979 2,119,486 138,027,000 1.18% 0.71%
1980 2,145,658 139,010,000 1.23% 0.71%
1981 2,173,818 139,941,000 1.31% 0.67%
1982 2,203,889 140,823,000 1.38% 0.63%
1983 2,234,832 141,668,000 1.4% 0.6%
1984 2,264,562 142,745,000 1.33% 0.76%
1985 2,290,656 143,858,000 1.15% 0.78%
1986 2,312,125 144,894,000 0.94% 0.72%
1987 2,329,813 145,908,000 0.77% 0.7%
1988 2,345,777 146,857,000 0.69% 0.65%
1989 2,361,916 147,721,000 0.69% 0.59%
1990 2,379,877 147,969,406 0.76% 0.17%
1991 2,400,869 148,394,216 0.88% 0.29%
1992 2,424,701 148,538,197 0.99% 0.1%
1993 2,449,916 148,458,777 1.04% -0.05%
1994 2,475,220 148,407,912 1.03% -0.03%
1995 2,500,151 148,375,787 1.01% -0.02%
1996 2,524,463 148,160,129 0.97% -0.15%
1997 2,547,848 147,915,361 0.93% -0.17%
1998 2,569,736 147,670,784 0.86% -0.17%
1999 2,589,795 147,214,776 0.78% -0.31%
2000 2,607,826 146,596,869 0.7% -0.42%
2001 2,624,403 145,976,482 0.64% -0.42%
2002 2,640,572 145,306,497 0.62% -0.46%
2003 2,656,623 144,648,618 0.61% -0.45%
2004 2,672,225 144,067,316 0.59% -0.4%
2005 2,687,066 143,518,814 0.56% -0.38%
2006 2,700,968 143,049,637 0.52% -0.33%
2007 2,713,800 142,805,114 0.48% -0.17%
2008 2,725,635 142,742,366 0.44% -0.04%
2009 2,736,995 142,785,348 0.42% 0.03%
2010 2,748,568 142,849,468 0.42% 0.04%
2011 2,760,494 143,018,195 0.43% 0.12%
2012 2,772,430 143,378,447 0.43% 0.25%
2013 2,783,687 143,805,638 0.41% 0.3%
2014 2,793,749 144,237,223 0.36% 0.3%
2015 2,802,534 144,640,716 0.31% 0.28%
2016 2,809,915 145,015,460 0.26% 0.26%
2017 2,815,764 145,293,260 0.21% 0.19%
2018 2,820,097 145,398,106 0.15% 0.07%
2019 2,823,271 145,453,291 0.11% 0.04%
2020 2,830,739 145,245,148 0.26% -0.14%
2021 2,837,682 144,746,762 0.25% -0.34%
2022 2,839,144 144,236,933 0.05% -0.35%
2023 2,839,786 143,826,130 0.02% -0.28%
2024 2,839,175 143,533,851 -0.02% -0.2%
2025 2,837,071 142,718,132 -0.07% -0.57%
2026 2,833,401 142,120,553 -0.13% -0.42%
2027 2,828,530 141,773,330 -0.17% -0.24%
2028 2,822,861 141,402,326 -0.2% -0.26%
2029 2,816,391 141,021,009 -0.23% -0.27%
2030 2,808,946 140,628,883 -0.26% -0.28%
2031 2,800,607 140,218,596 -0.3% -0.29%
2032 2,791,130 139,807,207 -0.34% -0.29%
2033 2,780,468 139,414,947 -0.38% -0.28%
2034 2,768,714 139,034,543 -0.42% -0.27%
2035 2,755,929 138,666,694 -0.46% -0.26%
2036 2,742,071 138,311,757 -0.5% -0.26%
2037 2,726,892 137,968,177 -0.55% -0.25%
2038 2,710,812 137,643,032 -0.59% -0.24%
2039 2,693,901 137,336,299 -0.62% -0.22%
2040 2,676,087 137,053,347 -0.66% -0.21%
2041 2,657,558 136,795,588 -0.69% -0.19%
2042 2,638,085 136,558,692 -0.73% -0.17%
2043 2,617,576 136,335,849 -0.78% -0.16%
2044 2,596,160 136,124,845 -0.82% -0.15%
2045 2,574,074 135,933,758 -0.85% -0.14%
2046 2,551,347 135,756,848 -0.88% -0.13%
2047 2,528,004 135,574,181 -0.91% -0.13%
2048 2,504,191 135,372,557 -0.94% -0.15%
2049 2,479,744 135,156,911 -0.98% -0.16%
2050 2,454,935 134,923,391 -1% -0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Jamaica increased by 115,468 people (a 4.3% growth), while Russia gained 1,121,902 people (a 0.78% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Jamaica gained 34,537 (a 1.23% growth), while Russia's population decreased by -1,922,584 (a 1.33% decline).

Jamaica was ranked 135th most populous country in 2005 and is 140th in 2025. Russia was ranked 9th in 2005 and still ranked 9th 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 Russia will decrease by 5.46% to 134,923,391 people and rank change from 9th to 13th.

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